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Work Package 4: Animation & Modelling
This is the first of the technology work packages underlying
the planned applications described above. It builds upon the
experience of virtual human avatars which will soon be commonplace
in all communication environments. Individual components of
shape and movement may be acquired from life (motion capture
of human signers) or constructed in 3D graphic space using
physical modelling tools. Tools based on each system will
be developed in parallel, evaluated, and deployed as appropriate.
For use with the direct recording of signed sequences, the
project will develop a refined suite of advanced Motion Capture
Tools, forming a single, coherent, capture, recording and
replay system, using robust techniques and equipment capable
of use in TV studios and other industrial, non-laboratory
settings.
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Work Package 5: Language and Notation
This is the second of the underlying technology packages.
This package will move from the presentation of manually encoded
versions of sign language (such as Sign Supported English)
generated from text - as in the 'Simon-the-Signer' prototype
system previously developed by ViSiCAST participants - to
the much more complex problem of describing, encoding, and
presenting natural European sign languages, derived from English
textual sources. The enabling technology here is a sign language
notation already under development by the University of Hamburg,
HamNoSys, which will be further developed to give an XML-compatible
notation, ViSiCAST-GML. The required lexicons will be developed
using this notation.
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