Gustavo Borba da Silva
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Concatenative Synthesis for Brazilian Sign Language
Gustavo Borba da Silva | Ângelo Brandão Benetti | José Mario De Martino
Proceedings of the 17th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology
Gustavo Borba da Silva | Ângelo Brandão Benetti | José Mario De Martino
Proceedings of the 17th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology
This paper presents an enhanced concatenative synthesis framework for Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) based on motion-capture (MoCap) data. The proposed method extends previous work by incorporating movement dynamics into the unit-selection process, allowing fragment selection to consider both pose similarity and velocity continuity. In addition, a quaternion-based transition smoothing mechanism is introduced to reduce discontinuities between independently recorded sign segments. The framework also employs a compact quaternion-only motion representation and a web-native architecture for real-time synthesis and visualization.