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Sign languages don't only use hand shape, but also hand motion, body pose, facial expression, mouthing words, etc. Cropping still images around the hands won't
by hmry 6y ago
Sign languages don't only use hand shape, but also hand motion, body pose, facial expression, mouthing words, etc. Cropping still images around the hands won't do you much good at all.
- medstrom 6y agoNot to mention polysynthetic signs - I don't want to be the one to program that. An example sentence of mostly polysynthetic signs: "i was out driving, just enjoying the scenery, the nature and all the trees passing by me," (3 signs) "then suddenly" (just raise the eyebrows and look scared at some point in front of you, with your hands still on the imaginary steering wheel), "my car crashed into a wall (or other immobile object) (and the hood got all deformed)" - 1 sign. So that takes about 5 seconds to sign, but up to a minute to represent all the embedded information in English. But in practice, you'd skip a lot of the embedded information when translating to English, depending on what was actually important. So how do you make the machine know what was important? It depends on who you're translating for!