BACKGROUND Reports regarding hand hygiene compliance (HHC) among hospital visitors are limited. Although there is an implicit assumption that the availability of alcohol-based hand sanitizer (AHS) promotes visitor HHC, the degree of AHS use by visitors remains unclear. To assess AHS use, we observed visitor HHC and how it is affected by visual cues in a private university hospital. METHODS Us...

Abstract The focus of this work is sign spotting –given a video an isolated sign, our task to identify whether and where it has been signed in continuous, co-articulated language video. To achieve task, we train model using multiple types available supervision by: (1) watching existing footage which sparsely labelled mouthing cues; (2) reading associated subtitles (readily translations the cont...

To investigate neural plasticity resulting from early auditory deprivation and use of American Sign Language, we measured responses to visual stimuli in deaf signers, hearing signers, and hearing nonsigners using functional magnetic resonance imaging. We examined "compensatory hypertrophy" (changes in the responsivity/size of visual cortical areas) and "cross-modal plasticity" (changes in audit...

Effective literacy education in deaf students calls for psycholinguistic research revealing the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying their written language processing. When learning a written language, deaf students are often instructed to sign out printed text. The present fMRI study was intended to reveal the neural substrates associated with word signing by comparing it with picture si...

Sign language is used by the deaf and hard of hearing people for communication. Automatic sign language recognition is a challenging research area since sign language often is the only way of communication for the deaf people. Sign language includes different components of visual actions made by the signer using the hands, the face, and the torso, to convey his/her meaning. To use different asp...

Word recognition in spoken language is known to be a dynamic, incremental, and continuous process. As words unfold in time, listeners activate a range of potential lexical candidates, including those that share semantic (Yee & Sedivy, 2006) and phonological (Allopenna, Magnuson, & Tanenhaus, 1998) features with the target word. Among the methodological techniques used to probe real-time recogni...

Traffic sign detection is an important research direction in the process of intelligent transportation Internet era, and plays a crucial role ensuring traffic safety. The purpose this to propose traffic-sign-detection algorithm based on selective kernel attention (SK attention), explicit visual center (EVC), YOLOv5 model address problems small targets, incomplete detection, insufficient accurac...

We present a visual aid for the hearing impaired to enable access to internet videos. The visual tool is in the form of a time synchronized lip movement corresponding to the speech in the video which is embedded in the original internet video. Conventionally, access to the audio or speech, in a video, by the hearing impaired is provided by means of either text subtitles or sign language gesture...