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Showing 1 to 20 of 1719 for “"Sign"”.
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Road sign recognition
A method for recognizing road signs in street scene images is proposed. We first developed a fast region growing segmentation method, combined with a 1NN smoothing filter, to work on color and produce robust segmentation results even when the image is noisy. An effective color distance measurement …
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EXPLORING THE ANCESTRAL ROOTS OF AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE: LEXICAL BORROWING FROM CISTERCIAN SIGN LANGUAGE AND FRENCH SIGN LANGUAGE
American Sign Language (ASL) is the natural and preferred language of the Deaf community in both the United States and Canada. Woodward (1978) estimated that approximately 60% of the ASL lexicon is derived from early 19th century French Sign Language, which is known as langue des signes …
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Rendering an avatar from sign writing notation for sign language animation
… 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 input. It …
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Legal Recognition and Media Representation of Sign Languages: South African Sign Language and New Zealand Sign Language as case studies
… investigates the legal recognition of national sign languages globally, and the relationship between sign language legal recognition and the representation of sign languages in newspaper media, using South African Sign Language (SASL) and New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) as comparative case …
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Adaptive traffic sign recognition
… the system to the special characteristics of the signs in different countries. The system is to be used as a vehicle mounted driver assistance system. Autonomous infrastructure detection has to be international in our globalised world. Many publications concerning the detection and recognition of …
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Unconstrained Road Sign Recognition
There are many types of road signs, each of which carries a different meaning and function: some signs regulate traffic, others indicate the state of the road or guide and warn drivers and pedestrians. Existent image-based road sign recognition systems work well under ideal conditions, but …
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Every sign of life
Every Sign of Life introduces an approach to and motivational schema for personal health monitoring. It is an exploration of how to make information collected by personal health-monitoring devices fun and engaging, and consequently more useful to the non-specialist. In contrast to the common …
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"Hands off our language!" Deaf sign language teachers' perspectives on sign language standardisation
… of codified standard varieties of British Sign Language (BSL) and German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebclrdensprache, DGS), there have been repeated calls for the standardisation of both languages primarily from outside the deaf communities. The development of standard varieties has been …
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Improving Commercial Sign Regulations: A Preliminary Framework to Evaluate Commercial Sign Regulations in Texas
Legislative efforts to regulate commercial signs or outdoor advertising in the United States have met repeated contest from those who are regulated by poorly drafted sign code. Historically such codes utilized the content of signs to determine how the sign would be regulated, differentiating the …
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Parametric synthesis of sign language
… lack of knowledge most hearing people have of sign language. To most, there seems to be little need to learn a language that is spoken by such a small minority unless perhaps a relative is unable to hear. Even with a desire to learn, the task may seem insurmountable due to the unique …
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Sign Ambiguities of Gaussian Sums
… type of multiplicative relation, called a {it sign ambiguity} (see Definition ef{defi:of_sign_ambi}), involving a $pm$ sign not connected to elementary properties of Gauss sums. In Chapter $5$, we provide an explicit product formula giving an infinite class of new sign ambiguities and we …
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Assessing British sign language development
Sign bilingualism is one of several approaches to the education of deaf children in the UK Sign bilingualism seeks to introduce British Sign Language (BSL) to deaf children from an early age in order to establish a first language from which English, the majority language, can be acquired. However, …
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The City of Morro Bay, California Sign Ordinance Update and Tourism-Oriented Directional Sign Plan
… <p>The City of Morro Bay, California – Sign Ordinance Update and Embarcadero District</p> <p>Tourism-Oriented Directional Sign Plan</p> <p>Erik Berg-Johansen</p> <p>This report includes a Draft Sign Ordinance, a Tourism-Oriented Directional Sign Plan, and a background report for each …
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Sign Languages of Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, and their Challenges for Sign Language Typology
The diverse sign languages (SLs) between established deaf community SLs and homesign have been called the “grey area” of SL linguistics, by virtue of their resistance to classification and the fact that they are understudied (Nyst, 2010, p. 416). This thesis investigates the languages of 12 deaf …
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Sign Languages of Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, and their Challenges for Sign Language Typology
The diverse sign languages (SLs) between established deaf community SLs and homesign have been called the “grey area” of SL linguistics, by virtue of their resistance to classification and the fact that they are understudied (Nyst, 2010, p. 416). This thesis investigates the languages of 12 deaf …
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Sign-Spatiality in Kata Kolok: how a village sign language of Bali inscribes its signing space
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