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• Closed ASL Interpreting for Online Videos

  Raja Kushalnagar, Matthew Seita, Abraham Glasser · 2017 · Proceedings of the 14th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper introduces "closed interpreting," a concept analogous to closed captioning but for sign language interpretation of online videos. While many deaf viewers prefer ASL interpreters over captions (as verbatim captioning speed often exceeds reading abilities, and deaf…

  American Sign Language · ASL · Deaf and hard of hearing · sign language interpreting · video accessibility

• Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs for Detecting Sign Language Content in Video Sharing Sites

  Frank M. Shipman, Satyakiran Duggina, Caio D.D. Monteiro, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna · 2017 · Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper addresses the problem of automatically detecting sign language content in videos on sharing platforms like YouTube and Vimeo. For many deaf and hard-of-hearing people, sign language is their primary communication medium, and they rely on online video content to stay…

  sign language · computer vision · video classification · information retrieval · deaf and hard of hearing

• Leveraging Complementary Contributions of Different Workers for Efficient Crowdsourcing of Video Captions

  Yun Huang, Yifeng Huang, Na Xue, Jeffrey P. Bigham · 2017 · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

  This paper presents BandCaption, a crowdsourcing system that combines automatic speech recognition (ASR) with input from diverse crowd workers to efficiently correct video captions. The key insight is that different groups of people — hearing-impaired users, second-language…

  captioning · crowdsourcing · video accessibility · speech recognition · deaf and hard of hearing

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