| Title: Automatic Generation of Sign Language from Hindi Text for Communication and Education of Hearing Impaired people URL: http://islfromtext.in Mobile App: Sanket Funding Agency: SEED Division of DST Duration: Three Years Amount: Rs 17.26 Lakhs Objectives: The main objective of this project is to develop Indian Sign Language generation system from natural language input Hindi text. The major objectives of this project are as follows: * To build an online multilingual multimedia Indian Sign Language dictionary. * To develop a parser to parse input language Hindi text for its ISL processing. * To develop HamNoSys generation system to create HamNoSys notation for ISL to express sign language phonological features. * To generate Indian Sign Language with the avatar to animate ISL corresponding to input text using HamNoSys notation. * To develop an online web-based and mobile-based system where a user can input any simple sentence in Hindi language to get its corresponding Indian Sign Language animation through a virtual human character. Principal Investigator: Dr. Parteek Bhatia Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Sanmeet Kaur, Assistant Professor, CSED, Thapar University, Patiala Status: Ongoing from Aug 2016 |