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AVASAG: A German Sign Language Translation System for Public Services (short paper)

AVASAG: نظام ترجمة لغة الإشارة الألمانية للخدمات العامة (ورقة قصيرة)

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 Publication date 2021
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This paper presents an overview of AVASAG; an ongoing applied-research project developing a text-to-sign-language translation system for public services. We describe the scientific innovation points (geometry-based SL-description, 3D animation and video corpus, simplified annotation scheme, motion capture strategy) and the overall translation pipeline.



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