ViSiCAST Project : General Information, Publicity and Publications

General Information

Read a Summary of the ViSiCAST project.

Contacts
(There is also a mailing list for the use of UEA ViSiCAST members here)

About	Contact	Website
General information about ViSiCAST at UEA	Dr John Glauert J.Glauert@uea.ac.uk	http://www.visicast.sys.uea.ac.uk
Weather Forecast on the Web	Dr John Glauert J.Glauert@uea.ac.uk	.
TESSA	Dr Stephen Cox sjc@sys.uea.ac.uk	.
School of Information Systems, UEA	Alexandra Delaney alexd@cmp.uea.ac.uk	http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk
University of East Anglia	Annie Ogden, Press and PR Manager A.Ogden@uea.ac.uk	http://www.uea.ac.uk
The Avatar - Televirtual	Mark Wells mark@televirtual.com	http://www.televirtual.com
The Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID)	Dr Mary Henley mary.henley@rnid.org.uk	http://www.rnid.org.uk
The ViSiCAST Project	ITC (Michele Wakefield) Michele.Wakefield@itc.org.uk	http://www.visicast.co.uk

ViSiCAST Publicity Materials

Materials include:
A summary of the ViSiCAST project.
Posters, handouts and graphics to do with UEA's ViSiCAST work.

Publications

Papers and Presentations about various aspects of ViSiCAST research at UEA.
A Presentation which relates to a particular Paper is shown on the same line.

Papers	Presentations
General Publications
"Virtual Signing: Capture, Animation, Storage and Transmission - An Overview of the ViSiCAST Project" 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.	"An Overview of ViSiCAST", pdf and ppt 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.
"Signing for the Deaf using Virtual Humans" 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.	"Signing for the Deaf using Virtual Humans", pdf and ppt 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.
	"ViSiCAST: Capture, Animation, Storage & Transmission", pdf and ppt J. Low (RNID) British Deaf Association Conference, Belfast, August 2000.
Publications about particular aspects of ViSiCAST
	"Deaf Signing for Television using Virtual Humans" N. Lodge (ITC), M. Wells, F. Pezeshkpour (Televirtual) Presentation to UK Terrestrial Digital Network group, September 2000.
"A Signing Avatar on the WWW" M. Verlinden, C. Tijsseling, H. Frowein (IvD) International Gesture Workshop 2001, City University, London, April 2001.
"The Development of Language Processing Support for the ViSiCAST Project" R. Elliott, J.R.W. Glauert, J.R. Kennaway, I. Marshall (UEA) 4th International ACM SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies (ASSETS 2000) Washington, November 2000.	"The Development of Language Processing Support for the ViSiCAST Project", pdf and ppt R. Elliott, J.R.W. Glauert, J.R. Kennaway, I. Marshall (UEA) 4th International ACM SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies (ASSETS 2000) Washington, November 2000.
"Synthetic Animation of Deaf Signing Gestures" Richard Kennaway (UEA) International Gesture Workshop 2001, City University, London, April 2001.	"Synthetic Animation of Deaf Signing", pdf and ppt Richard Kennaway (UEA) International Gesture Workshop 2001, City University, London, April 2001.
"The Architecture of an English-Text-to-Sign-Languages Translation System." E. Safar and I. Marshall Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP) G. Angelova et al (ed), Tzigov Chark Bulgaria, Sept 2001, pp223-228, ISBN 954-90906-1-2.
"Extraction of Semantic Representations from Syntactic CMU Link Grammar linkages." I. Marshall and E. Safar Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP) G. Angelova et al (ed), Tzigov Chark Bulgaria, Sept 2001, pp154-159, ISBN 954-90906-1-2.
TESSA, a system to aid communication with deaf people S.J. Cox, M. Lincoln, J. Tryggvason, M. Nakisa, M. Wells, M. Tutt and S. Abbott Proc. ASSETS 2002, Fifth International ACM SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies, pages 205--212, July, 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Development and Evaluation of a Speech to Sign Translation System to Assist Transactions S J Cox, M Lincoln, M J Nakisa, M. Wells, M. Tutt and S. Abbot. Int. Journal of Human Computer Interaction (accepted for publication in 2003/2004)
"Experience with, and Requirements for, a Gesture Description Language for Synthetic Animation" Richard Kennaway. 5th International Workshop on Gesture and Sign Language based Humman-Computer Interaction, Genova, April 2003
Publications from ViSiCAST partners
"ViSiCAST: Virtual Signing, Capture, Animation, Storage and Transmission - Übersetzung in und Generierung von virtueller Gebärdensprache im Fernsehen und Internet" R. Schulmeister (IDGS, Hamburg) FIfF-Kommunikation 2/2000: "Informationstechnik und Behinderung", 2000.
"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)
"Tracking facial features in video sequences using a deformable model-based approach" M. Malciu, Françoise Prêteux (INT) SPIE, San Diego

Chronicle/Media

Over the course of the ViSiCAST project, UEA's work has received accolades and widespread coverage in the media. Here is a selection:

Media Articles
TESSA wins British Computer Society Award	TESSA on show in the Science Museum: Posters and Press Release	Der Spiegel: Article on Weather Forecast System	TESSA: Sign of the Postal Times (Article in Wired eMagazine)
TESSA Script from British Satellite News

Video clips

Videos showing aspects of the ViSiCAST Project
Motion Capture Equipment (8.45MB .avi file)	Building an Avatar (11.2MB (.avi file)	TESSA in the Science Museum (14.9MB .avi file)	WDR: Computer Club (157MB .mov file, in German)