The design of a generic signing avatar animation system

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: We designed a generic avatar animator for use in sign language related projects.The animator is capable of animating any given avatar that is compliant with theH-Anim standard for humanoid animation. The system was designed with theSouth African Sign Language Machine Translation (SASL-MT) project in mind,but can easily be adapted to other sign language projects due to its generic design.An avatar that is capable of accurately performing sign language gestures isa special kind of avatar and is referred to as a signing avatar. In this thesis weinvestigate the special characteristics of signing avatars and address the issue offinding a generic design for the animation of such an avatar.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University