Program

Friday, October 18th
12:00	Registration
1:00	Welcome
1:15	Invited Talk: Will there ever be a market for signing avatars? Some observations on the past and future of our field - Thomas Hanke
2:00	Oral Presentations (John McDonald, session chair) A rule triggering system for automatic text-to-Sign translation - Michael Filhol, Mohamed Hadjadj and Benoît Testu Towards an Intuitive Sign Language Animation Authoring Environment For the Deaf - Alexis Heloir and Fabrizio Nunnari
3:00	Round tables
6:00	Dinner

 

Saturday, October 19th
8:30	Bagels and Coffee
9:00	Oral Presentations (Jerry Schnepp, session chair) Evaluating a Swiss German Sign Language Avatar among the Deaf Community - Sarah Ebling Interactive Edition in French Sign Language Dedicated to Virtual Signers: Requirements and Challenges - Sylvie Gibet, François Lefebvre-Albaret, Ludovic Hamon, Rémi Brun and Ahmed Turki Enhancing Gloss-Based Corpora with Facial Features Using Active Appearance Models - Christoph Schmidt, Oscar Koller, Hermann Ney, Thomas Hoyoux and Justus Piater
10:30	Poster Madness I (Eleni Efthimiou, session chair)
11:00	Break
11:30	Poster Session I Extending the eSIGN Editor to specify more dynamic signing - Rekha Jayaprakash, Silke Matthes and Thomas Hanke KAZOO: A Sign Language Generation Platform Based on Production Rules - Annelies Braffort, Michael Filhol, Maxime Delorme, Laurence Bolot, Annick Choisier and Cyril Verrecchia From Grammar Based MT to Post-processed SL Representations - Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Theodore Goulas, Nasia Dimou and Dimitris Kouremenos Overview of the Sign3D Project : High-fidelity 3D recording, indexing and editing of French Sign Language content - François Lefebvre-Albaret, Sylvie Gibet, Ahmed Turki, Ludovic Hamon and Rémi Brun
12:30	Lunch
2:30	Poster Madness II (Thomas Hanke, session chair)
3:00	Poster Session II An Indian Sign Language (ISL) Corpus of the Domain Disaster Messages Using Avatar - Poothullil John Mathew Martin, Belhe Swapnil, Mudliar Sudesh, Sahasrabudhe Sunil and Kulkarni Mahesh Exploiting the Full Potential of JASigning to Build an Avatar Signing Train Announcements - Sarah Ebling and John Glauert Toward a Real-Time ASL Avatar Utilizing Linguistic Principles for Nonmanual Signals - Marie Stumbo, Larwan Berke, Melissa Bialek and Farah Thomas Toward Lifelike Animations of American Sign Language: Achieving Natural Motion from the Movement-Hold Model - John McDonald, Rosalee Wolfe, Jerry Schnepp, Julie Hochgesang, Diana Gorman Jamrozik, Marie Stumbo and Larwan Berke
4:00	Break
4:30	Vote
5:15	Solicitation for further comments and concluding remarks
7:00	Dinner