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eSIGN: General Information and Publicity |
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On this page: As the project progresses this page will include any news, media events, publications, posters, movies and graphics, and a list of contacts for people involved with the eSIGN project.
A description of the project can be found here. |
THIS IS ALL NEW TO ME, WHERE DO I START? Click HERE for an introduction to eSIGN, with FAQs and links to other introductory material. |
Try out eSIGN technology for yourself. The avatar plugin can be downloaded by clicking on this icon:  |
eSIGN project contacts
Publications
Papers and Presentations about various aspects of eSIGN research at UEA.A Presentation which relates to a particular Paper is shown on the same line.
Further publications relating to Gesture Animation research at UEA are available here.
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Presentations |
| General Publications | |
| The eSIGN Approach How eSIGN technology could help you. A good introduction to the work of the eSIGN project, with contributions from all partners.. |
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| "eSIGN - Essential Sign Language Information on Government Networks" Thomas Hanke, Institute for German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf,University of Hamburg |
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| "Interface Definitions", Deliverable D5-1 from the earlier ViSiCAST project - a technical description of the languages defined to interface between various components used in eSIGN work Thomas Hanke, Ian Marshall, Eva Safar, Constanze Schmaling, |
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| "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, Italy, April 2003 |
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| :"A Framework for non-manual gestures in a synthetic signing system" Elliott, R., Glauert, J. R. W. and Kennaway, J. R., Proceedings of the 2nd Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology, CWUAAT 2004, 22-24 March 2004, Cambridge, U.K, pages 127-136 |
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| "Virtual Human Signing as Expressive Animation" Glauert, J. R. W., Kennaway, J. R., Elliott, R. and Theobald, B., Symposium on Language Speech and Gesture for Expressive Characters, Proceedings of the AISB 2004 Convention on Motion, Emotion and Cognition, 29 March - 1 April 2004, University of Leeds, U.K , pages 98-106. |
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| "SiGML Notation and SiGMLSigning Software System" Elliott, R., Glauert, J. R. W., Jennings, V. and Kennaway, J. R., Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2004, 26-28 May 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, pages 98-104. |
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| "Synthetic Signing for the Deaf: eSIGN" Zwiterslood, I., Verlinden, M., Ros, J., van der Schoot, S., Proceedings of the Conference and Workshop on Assistive Technologies for Vision and Hearing Impairment, CVHI 2004, 29 June-2 July 2004, Granada, Spain, pages |
"Synthetic Signing for the Deaf: eSIGN" Zwiterslood, I., Verlinden, M., Ros, J., van der Schoot, S., Presentation atthe Conference and Workshop on Assistive Technologies for Vision and Hearing Impairment, CVHI 2004, 29 June-2 July 2004, Granada, Spain |
| "Multimedia with Animated Sign Language for Deaf Learners" Verlinden, M., Zwitserlood, I., Frowein, H. Paper presented at the World Conference on Educational Multimedia,Hypermedia & Telecommunications, ED-MEDIA 2005, June 28-July, 2 2005, Montréal, Canada, pages 4759-4764. |
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| "Developing Techniques to Support Scripted Sign Language Performance by a Virtual Human" Elliott, R., Glauert, J., Kennaway, J.R., 3rd International Conference on UA in HCI, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 2005; in HCII 2005 (CD-ROM), Vol. 8: Universal Access in HCI: Exploring New Dimensions of Diversity. |
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| "VANESSA - A System for Communication between Deaf and Hearing People" Glauert, J.R.W., Elliott, R., Cox, S.J., Tryggvason, J., and Sheard, M. Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe, Chapter 24 pp 557-562, AAATE 2005, Lille, Sept 2005. |
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| "Synthetic Signing" Zwiterslood, I., Conference Publication IBC 2005: The World of Content Creation - Management - Delivery, Amsterdam, Sept. 2005, pp 352-357 |
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Posters
and Flyers
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on an image to view and/or save
 Flyer: PDF: Applications of Virtual Human Signing |
 Poster: PDF (A1): A Framework for Non-Manual Gestures in a Synthetic Signing System |
Samples of Avatar signing from eSIGN and earlier projects
Download QuickTime to view .mov files here
 .mov (2.8MB) |
 .avi (14.8MB) |
A sample of synthetic signing using the 'Guido' eSign avatar: "I saw an exciting video. I tell the story. I am a woman in the film. I invited four friends. I cook soup. I put an orange in the blender.The blender explodes. The orange splashes onto my front." |
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A sample of synthetic signing using the 'Visia2' eSign avatar: Item on Anglia TV News |
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A sample of synthetic signing using the 'Visia3' eSign avatar: From BBC TV program "The Road to Riches" |
Graphics
Click on an image to enlarge
it. Sizes here are not relative. Enlarged images can be downloaded.
Images from the ViSiCAST project are available HERE
 Guido |
 New Visia |
 VANESSA Client |
 Deaf Connexions Demo Webpage |
 Michael |
 Guido |
 Avatars |
 VANESSA Clerk |
 Example of HamNoSys |
 Michael skeleton |
 eSign logo |
 eSign logo |
 eSign Avatar 1 |
 UEA eSign logo large |
 Michael mesh |
UEA eSign logo small |
 eSign Avatar 2 |
 eSign Avatar 3 |
 UEA eSign logo med |
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