MobileASL: sign language via cell phone

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MobileASL: sign language via cell phone

02-13-2007, 12:32 PM,

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MobileASL: sign language via cell phone

Quote:MobileASL is a video compression project at the University of Washington with the goal of making wireless cell phone communication through sign language a reality.

The current wireless telephone network has inadvertently excluded over one million deaf or hard of hearing Americans.

With the advent of cell phone PDAs with larger screens and photo/video capture, people who communicate with American Sign Language (ASL) could utilize these new technologies. However, due to the low bandwidth of the wireless telephone network, even today's best video encoders likely cannot produce the quality video needed for intelligible ASL. Instead, a new real time video compression scheme is needed to transmit within the existing wireless network while maintaining video quality that allows users to understand semantics of ASL with ease...

more info: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/MobileASL/

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