We present a software toolkit called SLMotion which provides a framework for automatic and semiautomatic analysis, feature extraction and annotation of individual sign language videos, and which can easily be adapted to batch processing of entire sign language corpora. The program follows a modular design, and exposes a Numpy-compatible Python application programming interface that makes it easy and convenient to extend its functionality through scripting. The program includes support for exporting the annotations in ELAN format. The program is released as free software, and is available for GNU/Linux and MacOS platforms.
@inproceedings{karppa-etal-2014-slmotion:lrec,
author = {Karppa, Matti and Viitaniemi, Ville and Luzardo, Marcos and Laaksonen, Jorma and Jantunen, Tommi},
title = {{SLM}otion - An extensible sign language oriented video analysis tool},
pages = {1886--1891},
editor = {Calzolari, Nicoletta and Choukri, Khalid and Declerck, Thierry and Loftsson, Hrafn and Maegaard, Bente and Mariani, Joseph and Moreno, Asuncion and Odijk, Jan and Piperidis, Stelios,},
booktitle = {9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2014)},
publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
address = {Reykjavik, Iceland},
day = {26--31},
month = may,
year = {2014},
isbn = {978-2-9517408-8-4},
language = {english},
url = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/209_Paper.pdf}
}