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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"SASL"”.
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Vision-Based automatic translation for South African Sign Language (SASL)
… the DHH. In 2018, South African Sign Language (SASL) became an official subject in South African schools and in 2023 it became South Africa's 12th official language. However, these implementations do not impose it on institutions and service providers. Although some provisions are made to cater …
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Vision-Based automatic translation for South African Sign Language (SASL)
… the DHH. In 2018, South African Sign Language (SASL) became an official subject in South African schools and in 2023 it became South Africa's 12th official language. However, these implementations do not impose it on institutions and service providers. Although some provisions are made to cater …
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Video annotation wiki for South African sign language
The SASL project at the University of the Western Cape aims at developing a fully automated translation system between English and South African Sign Language (SASL). Three important aspects of this system require SASL documentation and knowledge. These are: recognition of SASL from a video …
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Design of a mobile support and content authoring tool to support deaf adults training in computer literacy skills
… communicate using South African Sign Language (SASL) come from poor socio-economic backgrounds are not familiar with the written form of English. They rely on interpreters and Deaf teachers to translate written text into SASL for them to learn computer literacy skill. We present our theme of …
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Legal Recognition and Media Representation of Sign Languages: South African Sign Language and New Zealand Sign Language as case studies
… media, using South African Sign Language (SASL) and New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) as comparative case studies. Drawing on sociolinguistic frameworks of language planning and policy, and language ideologies and attitudes, the study explores how officialisation impacts newspaper media …
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Robust facial expression recognition in the presence of rotation and partial occlusion
… translation of South African Sign Language (SASL) to English. The proposed method is able to accurately recognize frontal facial images at an average accuracy of 75%. It also achieves a high recognition accuracy of 70% for faces rotated to 60◦. It was also shown that the method is able to …
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South African sign language dataset development and translation : a glove-based approach
… as there is no South African Sign Language (SASL) database available. This research aims to develop a SASL static gesture database using a data glove as the first step towards developing a comprehensive database that encapsulates the entire language. Unfortunately commercial data gloves are …
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Understanding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic response measures on deaf adults in Cape Town
… to Covid-19- related information. Professional SASL interpreters were used, and interviews were videotaped to capture the original, signed data and then transcribed by the researcher into English and stored on a password-protected drive. Fieldnotes were used as a complimentary method of data …
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Implementation of South African Government Language Policy in Public Institutions: A Case Study of Siloam Hospital
… recent inclusion of South African Sign Language (SASL) in 2023, this study critically assessed how public healthcare institutions align with national and departmental language policies, specifically the National Department of Health Language Policy of 2015. The research was anchored in Spolsky’s …
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Rendering an avatar from sign writing notation for sign language animation
This thesis presents an approach for automatically generating signing animations from a sign language notation. An avatar endowed with expressive gestures, as subtle as changes in facial expression, is used to render the sign language animations. SWML, an XML format of SignWriting is provided as …