This page holds information for the Annual Review of ViSiCAST in October 2000. In addition to the materials sent to the Commission, it contains additional background in the form of academic papers, presentations, and brief reports on milestones.

The material on this site is Copyright ViSiCAST and is provided here in confidence only for the use of European Union Framework 5 Reviewers in connection with the Annual Review of the ViSiCAST project on 12th October 2000.

• Materials for Annual Project Review
• Additional Peer Review documents
• Extra Materials for Reviewers

Materials for ViSiCAST Annual Project Review

Contents

• ViSiCAST Annual Review Contents

A. ViSiCAST Periodic Reports

• Periodic Report January to March 2000
• Periodic Report April to June 2000
• Periodic Report July and August 2000 [Draft Report]

B. ViSiCAST Project Deliverables

• July 2000: D3-1 Constrained Post Office System
• April 2000: D7-1 ViSiCAST Public and Members Administration Website
• June 2000: D8-1 and D8-2 ViSiCAST Marketing and Exploitation Plan

C. Annex 1 - Description of Work

• ViSiCAST Annex 1

D. Current Project Plan

• ViSiCAST Current Plan

E. Summary of Progress

• ViSiCAST Summary of Annual Progress

F. Publicity Materials and Publications

• ViSiCAST Posters
  • ViSiCAST on TV
  • ViSiCAST in the Digital World
  • ViSiCAST in the High Street
• An Overview of ViSiCAST
• Paper to be presented at ASSETS 2000

Additional Materials for ViSiCAST Annual Project Review

Contents

• ViSiCAST Annual Review Additional Contents

G. Peer Reviews for Project Deliverables

• D3-1 Constrained Post Office System Peer Review
• D7-1 ViSiCAST Public and Members Administration Website Peer Review
• D8-1 and D8-2 ViSiCAST Marketing and Exploitation Plan Peer Review

Extra Materials for Reviewers

The following materials will provide the Reviewers with additional information about ViSiCAST progress:

ViSiCAST Publications

• "A Robust Model-Based Approach for 3D Head Tracking in Video Sequences"
  M. Malciu, Françoise Prêteux
  4th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'2000)
• "Signing for the Deaf using Virtual Humans" (Presentation) (PowerPoint)
  J.A. Bangham, S.J. Cox, M. Lincoln, I. Marshall (UEA)
  M. Tutt, M. Wells (Televirtual)
  IEE Seminar on "Speech and language processing for disabled and elderly people"
  London, April, 2000.
• "An Overview of ViSiCAST" (Presentation) (PowerPoint)
  J.A. Bangham, S.J. Cox, R. Elliott, J.R.W. Glauert, I. Marshall (UEA)
  S. Rankov, M. Wells (Televirtual)
  IEE Seminar on "Speech and language processing for disabled and elderly people"
  London, April, 2000.
• "The Development of Language Processing Support for the ViSiCAST Project"
  R. Elliott, J.R.W. Glauert, J.R. Kennaway, I. Marshall
  To be presented at ASSETS 2000, 4th International ACM SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies
• "Tracking facial features in video sequences using a deformable model-based approach"
  M. Malciu, Françoise Prêteux (INT)
  SPIE, San Diego
• "The Development and Evaluation of a Speech to Sign Translation System to Assist Transactions"
  M. Lincoln, S.J. Cox (UEA), M. Nakisa (RNID)
  This report is being prepared for publication. The current version appears as part of deliverable D3-1.

ViSiCAST Publicity and Presentations

• Deaf Signing for Television using Virtual Humans
  Presentation by ViSiCAST to UK Terrestrial Digital Network group.

ViSiCAST Technical Materials

• ViSiCAST Updated Project Plan
• The Visia Avatar
  Information about standard ViSiCAST avater.
• Markerless Motion Capture - a Literature Survey (Unpublished Draft)
  Joseph Bray (VR and Vision Dept., University of Brunel)
  It is an aim of the ViSiCAST Consortium to adopt robust and simple motion tracking methods for the capture of sign language, suitable for use in non-laboratory settings. This document has been compiled jointly by Televirtual and Brunel University, outside the project, as a spur to the development of such a system.

ViSiCAST Milestones and Deliverables

Code	Due	Date	Partner	Title	Type	Security
M3-1	02	Feb 2000	UEA	Transaction Recording and Realtime Speech Recognition System	Milestone	Int
M5-1	03	Mar 2000	UEA	Agree DRS Format for Semantic Representation	Milestone	Int
D7-1	03	Mar 2000	ITC	Website Production (Review)	Other	Pub
M3-2	04	Apr 2000	UEA	Sign Lexicon Production	Milestone	Int
M4-4	05	May 2000	TV	Motion File Player Avatar	Milestone	Int
M3-3	06	Jun 2000	UEA	Constrained PO System Evaluation	Milestone	Int
M5-10	06	Jun 2000	UEA	Initial SiGML Definition	Milestone	Int
D8-1	06	Jun 2000	ITC	Exploitation Plan (Review)	Report	Int
D8-2	06	Jun 2000	ITC	Marketing Study (Review)	Report	Int
M2-1	07	Jul 2000	UEA	SiGML Tool Initial	Milestone	Int
M3-4	07	Jul 2000	UEA	Constrained PO System Report	Milestone	Int
M6-1	07	Jul 2000	UKPO	Evaluation of Constrained Post Office System	Milestone	Int
D3-1	07	Jul 2000	UEA	Constrained Post Office System (Review)	Prototype	Pub
D4-1	08	Aug 2000	TV	Prototype Animation System for Direct Transmission	Prototype	Pub