Sign languages demonstrate a higher degree of iconicity than spoken languages. Studies on number unrelated sign show that the event structure verb signs is reflected in phonological form (Wilbur (2008), Malaia & Wilbur (2012), Krebs et al. (2021)). Previous research showed hearing non-signers (with no prior exposure to language) can use inherent visual dynamics correctly identify its (telic...

Hidden Markov models (HMM’s) have been used prominently and successfully in speech recognition and, more recently, in handwriting recognition. Consequently, they seem ideal f o r visual recognition of complex, structured hand gestures such as are found in sign language. We describe a real-time HMM-based system for recognizing sentence level American Sign Language (ASL) which attains a word accu...

Stewart, and the other Cornell Law Review editors and associates for all of their hard work and invaluable feedback. Standing at the top of the courthouse steps and telling a litigant who uses a wheelchair, "You may come in, " is a disingenuous statement of equal opportunity. Explaining to [a] deaf person that his right to participate in a trial has been met by virtue of his physical presence i...

Primate eyes display considerable oblique off-axis astigmatism which could provide information on the sign of defocus that is needed for emmetropization. The pattern of peripheral astigmatism is not known in the chicken eye, a common model of myopia. Peripheral astigmatism was mapped out over the horizontal visual field in three chickens, 43 days old, and in three near emmetropic human subjects...

tuberculosis is an infection which may influence many organs while ocular tuberculosis (tb) is amongst the rarest infectious diseases with no sign of systemic disease. a fifty-six-year- old female with complaint of gradual loss of visual acuity, weight loss, night sweats and purulent discharge from medial canthus and non-productive coughs. in general, tuberculosis in endemic areas, even the rar...

--Traffic sign recognition usually consists of two parts : detection and classification. In this paper we describe the classification stage using ring partitioned method. In this method, first the RGB image is converted into gray scale image using color thresholding and histogram specification technique. This gray scale image, called as specified gray scale image is invariant to the illuminatio...

We discuss the problems of translating English to Sign Language in the ViSiCAST project. An overview of the language-processing component of an EnglishText to Sign-Languages translation system is described focusing upon the inherent problems of knowledge elicitation of sign language grammar and its implementation within a HPSG framework.

Our world is populated with visual information that a sighted person makes use of daily. Unfortunately, the visually impaired are deprived from such information, which limits their mobility in unconstrained environments. To help alleviate this we are developing a wearable system that is capable of detecting and recognizing signs in natural scenes. The system is composed of two main components, ...

This paper analyzes the word-segmentation strategies used in signed and spoken languages. The claim is that there is a strong “modality effect” in the word segmentation strategies used in these two types of languages. The experimental results show that both signers and non-signers use place of articulation and movement more heavily than handshape to make word segmentation judgments; however, si...