From: harrison@cs.ubc.ca (Jason Harrison) Subject: Re: APPS: Apple Newton, Disabilities and Sign-language Recognition. Date: 14 Apr 1997 10:28:13 -0700 Message-ID: <5itpfd$6ot@harpo.cs.ubc.ca> Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada "Andrew Plumb" writes: >Who is familiar with the dynamics of sign-language? I'm not, but I have an >idea to toss out there. General Reality Company >..... What would it >take to implement even simple gesture recognition/sign-language translation >on the Newton? Facial tracking, and body tracking. The problem with sign language is: it's a spoke language, you'll have to segment the gestures, translate them within a context, pay attention to facial expressions which can totally change the meaning of a sign... It's going to take much more than an instrumented glove. This is a very hard problem. -Jason -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- J. Harrison@cs.ubc.ca http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/harrison Graduate Motto: Free-time with guilt. ftp://ftp.cs.ubc.ca/pub/local/quotes