Analysis of Expressiveness of Portuguese Sign Language Speakers

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2015

Authors

Rodrigues, IV (Author) Other; Pereira, EM (Author) Other; Luis F Teixeira (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: PATTERN RECOGNITION AND IMAGE ANALYSIS (IBPRIA 2015)

Pages: 708-717

7th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA)

Santiago de Compostela, SPAIN, JUN 17-19, 2015

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Authenticus ID: P-00G-E9D

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19390-8_79

Abstract (EN): Nowadays, there are several communication gaps that isolate deaf people in several social activities. This work studies the expressiveness of gestures in Portuguese Sign Language (PSL) speakers and their differences between deaf and hearing people. It is a first effort towards the ultimate goal of understanding emotional and behaviour patterns among such populations. In particular, our work designs solutions for the following problems: (i) differentiation between deaf and hearing people, (ii) identification of different conversational topics based on body expressiveness, (iii) identification of different levels of mastery of PSL speakers through feature analysis. With these aims, we build up a complete and novel dataset that reveals the duo-interaction between deaf and hearing people under several conversational topics. Results show high recognition and classification rates.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 10