If you find that bookmark could you share it with me? One project I've looked at is sign puppet [1]. It has all of the animation basics needed; the tough thing is inputting the parameters to animate the puppet. Traditionally capturing sign language data for the computer requires really sophisticated tracking equipment (gloves, etc.). Being able to do it with a web cam could be a game changer!
I studied linguistics and CS in school, and I learned a little JSL to speak with deaf friends in Japan. I think sign language processing is a really neat combination of computer vision/graphics and linguistics. Lately there have been so many great advances in speech processing, but there hasn't been a huge leap forward for sign language processing, though I feel there should be.
Deaf people are already really disadvantaged in many places, and getting left behind technologically doesn't help. I really resented looking for JSL books in the "disabled" section of the book stores in Japan, and when I spoke with some people about JSL, they didn't believe it was its own language. Even just linguistic work for sign languages is limited; I haven't seen a single reference grammar (re: comprehensive documentation) on any sign language. I think the difficulty of working with sign language data makes it more daunting to work with. (Paucity of speakers is certainly not a deterrent for linguists.)
I studied linguistics and CS in school, and I learned a little JSL to speak with deaf friends in Japan. I think sign language processing is a really neat combination of computer vision/graphics and linguistics. Lately there have been so many great advances in speech processing, but there hasn't been a huge leap forward for sign language processing, though I feel there should be.
Deaf people are already really disadvantaged in many places, and getting left behind technologically doesn't help. I really resented looking for JSL books in the "disabled" section of the book stores in Japan, and when I spoke with some people about JSL, they didn't believe it was its own language. Even just linguistic work for sign languages is limited; I haven't seen a single reference grammar (re: comprehensive documentation) on any sign language. I think the difficulty of working with sign language data makes it more daunting to work with. (Paucity of speakers is certainly not a deterrent for linguists.)
[1] https://github.com/aslfont/sign-puppet