Title :
Feasibility of Face Animation on Mobile Phones for Deaf Users
Author :
György, Takács ; Attila, Tihanyi ; Tamás, Bárdi ; Gergely, Feldhoffer
Author_Institution :
Pazmany Peter Catholic Univ., Budapest
Abstract :
Mobile telephone systems have made a fantastic progress in general, but deaf people are practically excluded from the benefits of mobiles. Our aim was to develop a new communication aid for deaf users. Our system directly converts the audio speech signal into the video of animated face, so the deaf users can receive voice messages by lip-reading. Our system was implemented and tested in a PC environment earlier. This paper reports on the implementation on mobile phones and PDAs. The implementation problems and the potential steps for further improvements are also discussed.
Keywords :
audio signal processing; computer animation; handicapped aids; mobile handsets; video signal processing; PDA; audio speech signal; communication aid; deaf users; face animation; lip-reading; mobile phones; video signal; Deafness; Facial animation; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Personal digital assistants; Principal component analysis; Speech; System testing; Telephony; Tracking;
Conference_Titel :
Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, 2007. 16th IST
Conference_Location :
Budapest
Print_ISBN :
963-8111-66-6
Electronic_ISBN :
963-8111-66-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISTMWC.2007.4299237