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title = "A Novel Approach to Managing Lower Face Complexity in Signing Avatars",
author = "McDonald, John and
Johnson, Ronan and
Wolfe, Rosalee",
editor = "Efthimiou, Eleni and
Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and
Hanke, Thomas and
McDonald, John C. and
Shterionov, Dimitar and
Wolfe, Rosalee",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology: The Junction of the Visual and the Textual: Challenges and Perspectives",
month = jun,
year = "2022",
address = "Marseille, France",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.sltat-1.10",
pages = "67--72",
abstract = "An avatar that produces legible, easy-to-understand signing is one of the essential components to an effective automatic signed/spoken translation system. Facial nonmanual signals are essential to natural signing, but unfortunately signing avatars still do not produce acceptable facial expressions, particularly on the lower face. This paper reports on an innovative method to create more realistic lip postures. The approach manages the complexity of creating lip postures, thus making fewer demands on the artists making them. The method will be integral to our efforts to develop libraries containing lip postures to support the generation of facial expressions for several sign languages.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T A Novel Approach to Managing Lower Face Complexity in Signing Avatars
%A McDonald, John
%A Johnson, Ronan
%A Wolfe, Rosalee
%Y Efthimiou, Eleni
%Y Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita
%Y Hanke, Thomas
%Y McDonald, John C.
%Y Shterionov, Dimitar
%Y Wolfe, Rosalee
%S Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology: The Junction of the Visual and the Textual: Challenges and Perspectives
%D 2022
%8 June
%I European Language Resources Association
%C Marseille, France
%F mcdonald-etal-2022-novel
%X An avatar that produces legible, easy-to-understand signing is one of the essential components to an effective automatic signed/spoken translation system. Facial nonmanual signals are essential to natural signing, but unfortunately signing avatars still do not produce acceptable facial expressions, particularly on the lower face. This paper reports on an innovative method to create more realistic lip postures. The approach manages the complexity of creating lip postures, thus making fewer demands on the artists making them. The method will be integral to our efforts to develop libraries containing lip postures to support the generation of facial expressions for several sign languages.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.sltat-1.10
%P 67-72
Markdown (Informal)
[A Novel Approach to Managing Lower Face Complexity in Signing Avatars](https://aclanthology.org/2022.sltat-1.10) (McDonald et al., SLTAT 2022)
ACL
- John McDonald, Ronan Johnson, and Rosalee Wolfe. 2022. A Novel Approach to Managing Lower Face Complexity in Signing Avatars. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology: The Junction of the Visual and the Textual: Challenges and Perspectives, pages 67–72, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.