Abstract
After a brief review of the origin and present state of sign-language as the principal means of communication among the deeply deaf, the main existing proposals for enabling telecommunications for this sub-community of handicapees are reviewed. Arising from this analysis, a new system is proposed, based on the transmission of a severely simplified image sequence, using extraction of contours to obtain the effect of a real-time animated cartoon drawn from the actual scene. Some preliminary experimental results are presented, together with a discussion of the future stages of the investigation. An appendix describes a contour extraction algorithm applied in this work.
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Abramatic, J.F., Letellier, P., Nadler, M. (1983). A Narrow-Band Video Communication System for the Transmission of Sign Language Over Ordinary Telephone Lines. In: Huang, T.S. (eds) Image Sequence Processing and Dynamic Scene Analysis. NATO ASI Series, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81935-3_15
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