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Not at home to collect your parcel? Now you can get it delivered to your CAR! Ford teams up with Hermes to. The future of road trips? Students develop a 'completely self-sufficient' solar-powered electric CAMPER VAN. ‘Now, a hearing person could come to that kiosk and ask questions of the deaf person and wouldn’t have to understand or use sign language…the system could help them communicate.’ ‘Imagine an information kiosk, say, at an airport, and rather than the person seeking information being deaf, imagine that the person staffing the information kiosk was deaf,’ said Mr Tansley. The researchers hope the system could even open up new job opportunities for deaf people. With this technology however, a signer would be empowered to communicate independently with a non-signer without scheduling an interpreter or resorting to other methods. But with this technology, they could simply use their natural sign language.’ He said such interaction ‘would be very artificial. Mr Tansley uses the scenario of a deaf person visiting a physician who doesn’t know sign language. A video released by the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows Miss Yin sign back and forth with an avatar ‘You can communicate between American sign language and Chinese sign language-or potentially any sign languages to any other natural language,’ said Stewart Tansley director, Natural User Interface at Microsoft.Īmong the student participants was Dandan Yin, who is deaf and able to sign. The Kinect Sign Language Translator is currently a prototype, but researchers are hopeful that it will provide a cost-effective means of communication between those who are fluent in sign language and those whose signing is limited to crude gestures. ‘With the segmentation from one posture to another and combining also the trajectory, we can use machine learning technology and pattern recognition technology to make the final decision of what's the meaning of the gesture,’ explained Professor Chen.Īmong the student participants was Dandan Yin, who is deaf and able to sign.Ī video released by the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows Miss Yin sign back and forth with an avatar. Teenage boy studying on computer in microsoft office 2011 for mac book software#
In June 2011 Microsoft released Kinect for Windows software development kit (SDK), which helped make the technology broadly available for scientific use. Originally developed for gaming, the Kinect's sensors read a user’s body position and movements and, with the help of a computer, translate them into commands. ‘So from my point of view, I thought this is the right time to develop some technology to help. ‘We knew that information technology, especially computer technology, has grown up very fast,’ he said.
Professor Xilin Chen, deputy director of the Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has spent the last decade studying sign language recognition. IR works in a similar way to thermal imaging and is used in night-vision goggles, for example. It is additionally said to be better at recognising features and body movements in the dark and dimly lit rooms because it uses what's called active infrared (IR). The range of emotions is limited to happy, neutral and disinterested during the beta release. The second-generation Kinect sensor is also able to see faces, track eye movements and detect expressions.
This means it can identify small movements of the hand on a controller, for example. It can read up to six skeletons at once, compared to the current two, and its 'small object detection' is said to be two-and-a-half times better. The sensor will be sold with the new console and both are available from 22 November.Īs well as the heart rate monitor, Microsoft's sensor has an increased 'field of view' that is now 60 per cent wider than the current Kinect. Microsoft unveiled its Kinect sensor as part of its Xbox One event in June.
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