The design of a generic signing avatar animation system

Description

Thesis (MScIng)--University of Stellenbosch, 2006. / 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 the
H-Anim standard for humanoid animation. The system was designed with the
South 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 is
a special kind of avatar and is referred to as a signing avatar. In this thesis we
investigate the special characteristics of signing avatars and address the issue of
finding a generic design for the animation of such an avatar. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Ons het ’n generiese karakteranimasiestelsel ontwikkel vir gebruik in gebaretaal
verwante projekte. Die animasiestelsel het die vermo¨e om enige karaktermodel
wat met die H-Anim standaard versoenbaar is, te animeer. Die animasiestelsel
is ontwerp met die oog op gebruik in die South African Sign Language Machine
Translation (SASL-MT) projek, maar kan maklik aangepas word vir ander
gebaretaalprojekte te danke aan die generiese ontwerp.
’n Karaktermodel wat in staat is om gebare akkuraat te maak is ’n spesiale
tipe karaktermodel wat bekend staan as ’n gebaretaal avatar (Engels : signing
avatar). In hierdie tesis ondersoek ons die spesiale eienskappe van ’n gebaretaal
avatar en beskou die soektog na ’n generiese ontwerp vir die animering van
so ’n karaktermodel.

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1. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/17353

Tags

Avatars (Virtual reality) -- Design

Computer animation

Animators -- Design

Sign language -- Computer-aided design

South African Sign Language

Avators, Signing

Theses -- Applied mathematics

Dissertations -- Applied mathematics

Theses -- Computer science

Dissertations -- Computer science

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/17353
Date	12 1900
Creators	Fourie, Jaco
Contributors	Van Zijl, L., Herbst, B., Bakkes, P. J., University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Science. Dept. of Mathematical Sciences. Institute for Applied Computer Science.
Publisher	Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch
Source Sets	South African National ETD Portal
Language	en_ZA
Detected Language	Unknown
Type	Thesis
Format	vii, 75 leaves : ill.
Rights	University of Stellenbosch