Professor Hiroshi Tanaka, Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Faculty of Information Technology, received Best Paper Award at AMBIENT 2024, the Fourteenth International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologies, which took place in Venice, Italy from Sep. 29th to Oct. 3rd, 2024. 

Awarded Paper

Basic Investigation for Sign Language Sentence Interpretation Using Acceleration Sensor Information

Hiroshi Tanaka, Yoshimori Umeda, Yuusuke Kawakita, Hiromitsu Nishimura, Jin Mitsugi

Summary of the paper

While many institutes have traditionally studied the recognition of word actions in sign language, this study extends this research to the recognition of sentence actions. The paper proposes a method for appropriately segmenting word actions contained in sentences into individual actions, and also applies existing databases of word actions and artificial intelligence techniques to recognize sign language sentence actions. This research is funded by Telecommunications Advancement Foundation.

AMBIENT 2024 Awards