Cued Speech Gesture Recognition: A First Prototype Based on Early Reduction
Thomas Bürger, Alice Caplier, Pascal Perret · EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing · 2007
Cued Speech is a specific linguistic code for hearing-impaired people. It is based on both lip-reading and manual gestures. In the context of THIMP (Telephony for the Hearing-IMpaired Project), we work Amongst the various means of expression dedicated to the hearing impaired, the best known are Sign Languages (SLs). Most of the time, SLs have a structure completely different from oral languages. As a consequence, the mother tongue of the hearing-impaired (any SL) is completely different from that which the hearing impaired are supposed to read fluently (i.e. French or English). This paper does not deal with the study and the recognition of SLs. Here, we are interested in a more recent and totally different means of communication, the importance of which is growing in the hearing-impaired community: Cued Speech (CS). It was developed by Dr. Cornett in 1967 [1]. Its purpose is to make the natural oral language accessible to the hearing-impaired, by the extensive use of lip-reading. But liphal-00327473,