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June 24, 2022

14:00 - 16:00    Session poster - Poster Session

Analysis of Torso Movement for Signing Avatar Using Deep Learning Shatabdi Choudhury DePaul University

Isolated Sign Recognition using ASL Datasets with Consistent Text-based Gloss Labeling and Curriculum Learning Konstantinos M. Dafnis1, Evgenia Chroni1, Carol Neidle2, Dimitri Metaxas3 1Rutgers University, 2Boston University, 3Rutgers Univ.

Example-based Multilinear Sign Language Generation from a Hierarchical Representation Boris Dauriac1, Annelies Braffort2, Elise-Lemée3 1MocapLab, 2LISN, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 3SYSTRAN

14:00 - 16:00    Fine-tuning of convolutional neural networks for the recognition of facial expressions in sign language video samples Neha Deshpande1, Fabrizio Nunnari2, Eleftherios Avramidis2 1Technical University of Berlin, 2German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

Signing Avatar Performance Evaluation within EASIER Project Athanasia - Lida Dimou1, Vassilis Papavassiliou2, John McDonald3, Theodore Goulas4, Kyriaki Vasilaki1, Anna Vacalopoulou5, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea6, Eleni Efthimiou1, Rosalee Wolfe7 1Institute for Language and Speech Processing - ILSP/ATHENA RC, 2ILSP/Athena RC, 3DePaul University, 4Institute of Language and Speech processing, 5ILSP, 6Senior Researcher, Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)/Athena RC, 7Institute for Language and Speech Processing, ATHENARC

14:00 - 16:00    Improved Facial Realism through an Enhanced Representation of Anatomical Behavior in Sign Language Avatars Ronan Johnson DePaul University

KoSign Sign Language Translation Project: Introducing The NIASL2021 Dataset Mathew Huerta-Enochian1, Du Hui Lee1, Hye Jin Myung2, Kang Suk Byun2, Jun Woo Lee2 1EQ4ALL, 2Kangnam University

A Novel Approach to Managing Lower Face Complexity in Signing Avatars John McDonald1, Ronan Johnson1, Rosalee Wolfe2 1DePaul University, 2Institute for Language and Speech Processing, ATHENARC

A Software Toolkit for Pre-processing Sign Language Video Streams Fabrizio Nunnari German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

Greek Sign Language Recognition for the SL-ReDu Learning Platform Katerina Papadimitriou1, Gerasimos Potamianos1, Galini Sapountzaki2, Theodore Goulas3, Eleni Efthimiou4, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea5, Petros Maragos6 1Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Thessaly, 2Department of Special Education, University of Thessaly, 3Institute of Language and Speech processing, 4Institute for Language and Speech Processing - ILSP/ATHENA RC, 5Senior Researcher, Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)/Athena RC, 6School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens

Mouthing Recognition with OpenPose in Sign Language Maria Del Carmen Saenz DePaul University

14:00 - 16:00    Skeletal Graph Self-Attention: Embedding a Skeleton Inductive Bias into Sign Language Production Ben Saunders, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden University of Surrey

Multi-track Bottom-Up Synthesis from Non-Flattened AZee Scores Paritosh Sharma1 and Michael Filhol2 1LISN, CNRS, 2LISN, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay

First Steps Towards a Signing Avatar for Railway Travel Announcements in the Netherlands Britt Van Gemert1, Richard Cokart2, Lyke Esselink3, Maartje De Meulder4, Nienke Sijm4, Floris Roelofsen5 1Radboud University, SignLab Amsterdam, Nederlandse Spoorwegen, 2Nederlands Gebarencentrum, 3Radboud University Nijmegen, University of Amsterdam, SignLab Amsterdam, 4Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, 5University of Amsterdam, SignLab Amsterdam

Changing the Representation: Examining Language Representation for Neural Sign Language Production Harry Walsh1, Ben Saunders2, Richard Bowden2 1University of Surrey, 2CVSSP

Supporting Mouthing in Signed Languages: New innovations and a proposal for future corpus building Rosalee Wolfe1, John McDonald2, Ronan Johnson2, Ben Sturr2, Syd Klinghoffer2, Anthony Bonzani2, Andrew Alexander2, Nicole Barnekow2 1Institute for Language and Speech Processing, ATHENARC, 2DePaul University

16:00 - 16:30    Break

16:30 - 18:00    Session stage - On stage presentation

16:30 - 16:35    Short remarks SLTAT Organizing committee

16:35 - 17:00    Signing Avatars in a New Dimension: Challenges and Opportunities in Virtual Reality Lorna Quandt, Jason Lamberton, Carly Leannah, Athena Willis, Melissa Malzkuhn Gallaudet University

17:00 - 17:30    Synthesis for the Kinematic Control of Identity in Sign Language Félix Bigand, Elise Prigent, Annelies Braffort Université Paris Saclay, CNRS, LISN

17:30 - 18:00    Improving Signer Independent Sign Language Recognition for Low Resource Languages Ruth Holmes1, Ellen Rushe1, FRANK FOWLEY2, Anthony Ventresque1 1University College Dublin, 2UCD