Gesture synthesis from sign language notation using MPEG-4 humanoid animation parameters and inverse kinematics

IET Conference Publications

Volumn , Issue 518, 2006, Pages 151-160

  Papadogiorgaki, Maria ^a   Grammalidis, Nikos ^a   Makris, L ^a   Strintzis, Michael G ^a  

^a INFORMATICS AND TELEMATICS INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

MPEG 4 face and body animation; Sign synthesis; SWML

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; DATA COMPRESSION; INVERSE KINEMATICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROBOTICS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); XML;

FACIAL ANIMATION PARAMETERS (FAP); INTERACTIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SIGN LANGUAGE NOTATION; SIGN WRITING MARKUP LANGUAGE (SWML);

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 34248226279     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/cp:20060637     Document Type: Conference Paper

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