General
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On this page: General information: a summary of the ViSiCAST project, its aims and activities, and a list of contacts for further information. Publicity Material: a selection of posters and other graphics resources and some non-technical descriptions of particular features of UEA's Visicast work Publications: papers and presentations that have been written about various aspects of Visicast research. Chronicle/Media: a scrapbook of press reports, videos and significant events from the ViSiCAST project. |
About
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Contact
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Website
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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 |
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. |
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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. |
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"A
Signing Avatar on the WWW" M. Verlinden, C. Tijsseling, H. Frowein (IvD) International Gesture Workshop 2001, City University, London, April 2001. |
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"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. |
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"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. |
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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 |
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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) |
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"Experience
with, and Requirements for, a Gesture Description Language for Synthetic
Animation" |
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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. |
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"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) |
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"Tracking
facial features in video sequences using a deformable model-based approach"
M. Malciu, Françoise Prêteux (INT) SPIE, San Diego |
Media
Articles |
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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 |
Videos
showing aspects of the ViSiCAST Project
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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) |