Using avatar animation software for sign language synthesis. Jeu, R. d. 2022. Bachelor's thesis, University of Amsterdam.
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Deaf people can have a reading and writing delay due to the fact that the sign language of their country is their first language. Most hearing people do not understand sign language. This causes a language barrier to exist between deaf and hearing people. While tools like Google Translate support many languages, not a single sign language is included. This research reduces the language barrier between deaf and hearing people by developing a synthesis tool for sign language. This research focuses on evaluating different gaming and Virtual Reality avatar animation software to create signing avatars used for the synthesis tool. It also looks at converting motion capture data in to animations for the signing avatars. This conversion is implemented fully for one avatar. The resulting animation shows some unnatural movement but looks promising.
@unpublished{Jeu:22,
  title = {Using avatar animation software for sign language synthesis},
  author = {Jeu, Roel de},
  year =  {2022},
  url = {https://dspace.uba.uva.nl/server/api/core/bitstreams/5f83a355-f4c2-4bd6-b263-885a9d6a6df6/content},
  keywords = {bachelorsthesis},
  abstract = {Deaf people can have a reading and writing delay due to the fact that the sign language of their country is their first language. Most hearing people do not understand sign language. This causes a language barrier to exist between deaf and hearing people. While tools like Google Translate support many languages, not a single sign language is included. This research reduces the language barrier between deaf and hearing people by developing a synthesis tool for sign language. This research focuses on evaluating different gaming and Virtual Reality avatar animation software to create signing avatars used for the synthesis tool. It also looks at converting motion capture data in to animations for the signing avatars. This conversion is implemented fully for one avatar. The resulting animation shows some unnatural movement but looks promising.},
  note = {Bachelor's thesis, University of Amsterdam.}
}

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