the visicast project
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5 th Framework Program Key Actions:. Systems and services for citizen To meet the needs and expectations of European citizens for high quality and affordable services of general interest. RTD will be carried out in the fields of health , persons with special needs - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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55th th Framework ProgramFramework ProgramKey Actions:Key Actions:
• Systems and services for citizen To meet the needs and expectations of European
citizens for high quality and affordable services
of general interest. RTD will be carried out in the
fields of health, persons with special needs
(including elderly and disabled), administrations,
environment and transport.
• Multimedia context and tools
Duration:Duration:36 months
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Advanced technology-based
Project statementProject statement
Information access and communicationof pre-lingually deaf people
Open choice
No proprietarysolutions
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Television accessTelevision access
• Subtitles currently increase significantly TV streams
• Those deaf from birth find it difficult to learn spoken and written English
• Signing is their natural language
• English law requires to sign 2% by 2001, and 5% by 2009
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Television accessTelevision access
? A supporting MPEG-2 stream
Human signer + additional channel
An insert into existing picture
Television accessTelevision access
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Face-to-face transactionsFace-to-face transactions
?Natural interactionNatural interaction
Deaf customerDeaf customer Counter clerkCounter clerk
Sign Language Speech
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Multimedia and WWW ApplicationsMultimedia and WWW Applications
WWW pagesWWW pages
Text-to-signgenerator
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LexiconSL Grammar
Low Bit-Rate Transmission
ServicesSpeechSpeech
Text
BAPs Files
DSs inMPEG-7 DL
PPaarrssiinngg
HamNoSysRepresentation
MPEG-DecoderMPEG-Decoder
BAPs/DS-BasedAvatar
Animation
HamNoSys-Based Avatar
Animation
TV SigningStandards
and Delivery
Interactive DeafSigning on the Web
Face-to-FaceAccess to Services
Synopsis of the Synopsis of the ViSiCAST ViSiCAST ProjectProject
Ges
ture
Notat
ion
MPEG-7 EncoderMPEG-7 Encoder
MPEG-4 EncoderMPEG-4 Encoder
ViSiCAST ViSiCAST GMLGML
Gesture Capture
3D Model-BasedAnalysis/Indexing
SpecificSensors
Signer
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Independent Television
Commission
The ViSiCAST Consortium
Televirtual
University of East Anglia
The Post Office
Royal Institute for Deaf People
Instituutvoor Doven
Hamburg University
Institut für Rundfunktechnik
Institut National des Télécommunications
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The ViSiCAST Consortium
Speech and text translation into Sign Language (Speech and text translation into Sign Language (UEAUEA)) Sign Language notation (Sign Language notation (UHUH) ) Avatar creation (Avatar creation (TVTV)) Broadcast technology (Broadcast technology (ITCITC, , IRTIRT)) Broadcast imaging and animation standards (Broadcast imaging and animation standards (INTINT)) Multimedia content creation (Multimedia content creation (IvDIvD))
Evaluation capabilities provided by the UK RNID
Face-to-Face transactions provided by the UK PO
Experts in:Experts in:
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MPEG-4 compliant avatar definition & animation
MPEG-7 compliant sign language indexing
ARTEMIS ContributionsARTEMIS Contributions