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Finding Origin Points for New Coordinate System Suitable for Sign Animation

  • Tomohiro Kuroda
  • Kazuya Okamoto
  • Ryo Kitauchi
  • Tadamasa Takemura
  • Naoki Ohboshi
  • Hiroyuki Yoshihara
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 4561)

Abstract

This paper proposes new coordinate system suitable for denoting sign language motion. As the proposed coordinate system consists of polar coordinate systems whose origins are certain points of human body, postures shown on the system can be proportional for avatars with any possible shape and fit with existing subjective sign notation systems. This paper extracted coordinate origins from Japanese-Japanese Sign Language Dictionary via morphological analysis. Selected 85 points are successfully mapped on H-ANIM standard humanoid avatar.

Keywords

Japanese Sign Language Natural Language Processing Sign Language Dictionary Sign Animation 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Tomohiro Kuroda
    • 1
    • 2
  • Kazuya Okamoto
    • 2
  • Ryo Kitauchi
    • 3
  • Tadamasa Takemura
    • 1
    • 2
  • Naoki Ohboshi
    • 3
  • Hiroyuki Yoshihara
    • 1
    • 2
  1. 1.Department of Medical Informatics, Kyoto University Hospital, 54 Kawahara-cho, Shogo-in, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8507Japan
  2. 2.Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, 36-1, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501Japan
  3. 3.School of Science and Engineering, Kinki University, 3-4-1, Kowakae, Higashi-Osaka, 577-8502Japan

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