A Software Toolkit for Pre-processing Sign Language Video Streams

Nunnari, Fabrizio

Volume:: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology: The Junction of the Visual and the Textual: Challenges and Perspectives
Venue:: Marseille, France
Date:: 24 June 2022
Pages:: 73–78
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:: CC BY-NC 4.0
ACL ID:: 2022.sltat-1.11
ISBN:: 979-10-95546-82-5

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Projects:: AVASAG, EASIER, SocialWear
Automatic Processing:: Sign Language Video Processing Tools

Abstract

We present the requirements, design guidelines, and the software architecture of an open-source toolkit dedicated to the pre-processing of sign language video material. The toolkit is a collection of functions and command-line tools designed to be integrated with build automation systems. Every pre-processing tool is dedicated to standard pre-processing operations (e.g., trimming, cropping, resizing) or feature extraction (e.g., identification of areas of interest, landmark detection) and can be used also as a standalone Python module. The UML diagrams of its architecture are presented together with a few working examples of its usage. The software is freely available with an open-source license on a public repository.

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Fabrizio Nunnari. 2022. A Software Toolkit for Pre-processing Sign Language Video Streams. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology: The Junction of the Visual and the Textual: Challenges and Perspectives, pages 73–78, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{nunnari:70009:sltat:lrec,
  author    = {Nunnari, Fabrizio},
  title     = {A Software Toolkit for Pre-processing Sign Language Video Streams},
  pages     = {73--78},
  editor    = {Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and McDonald, John C. and Shterionov, Dimitar and Wolfe, Rosalee},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology: The Junction of the Visual and the Textual: Challenges and Perspectives},
  maintitle = {13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2022)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Marseille, France},
  day       = {24},
  month     = jun,
  year      = {2022},
  isbn      = {979-10-95546-82-5},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2022/workshops/sltat/pdf/2022.sltat-1.11}
}