S-Tel: An Avatar Based Sign Language Telecommunication System
S-Tel: An Avatar Based Sign Language Telecommunication System
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S-Tel：基于 Avatar 的手语电信系统
DOI：
10.20870/ijvr.1998.3.4.2631
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发表时间：
1998
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K. Chihara
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作者：
T. Kuroda;Kosuke Sato;K. Chihara
尽管现代电信极大地改变了我们的日常生活，但聋人无法从基于语音媒体的通信中受益。介绍了一种基于虚拟现实技术的新型手语通信系统，实现了模拟电话线上的自然手语通话。在这种方法中，一个人与他/她的当事人的化身对话，而不是与当事人的现场视频交谈。由于说话人的动作以运动学数据的形式传输，传输的数据在不丢失语言和非语言信息的情况下得到理想的压缩。一个原型系统S-TEL在UDP/IP上实现了该方法，证明了在真实的有损信道上进行基于化身的手语对话的有效性。
Although modern telecommunication have changed our daily lives so drastically, the deaf cannot benefit from them based on phonetic media. This paper introduces a new telecommunication system for sign language utilizing VR technology, which enables natural sign conversation on analogue telephone line. On this method, a person converses with his/her party’s avatar instead of party’s live video. As speaker’s actions are transmitted as kinematic data, the transmitted data is ideally compressed without losing language and non-language information of spoken signs. A prototype system, S-TEL, implementing this method on UDP/IP, proved the effectiveness of avatar-based communication for sign conversation via a real lossy channel.