Animation Samples
Animations from Paper Entitled: Modeling and Synthesizing Spatially Inflected Verbs for American Sign Language Animations
ASSETS Conference, 2010
Matt Huenerfauth and Pengfei Lu
Verbs Studied in This Paper
We studied five ASL verbs in this paper:
- ASK1h: A one-handed sign in which the signer's dominant hand moves from the subject location toward the object location while the extended index finger begins to bend.
- GIVE1h: A two-handed sign in which the signer's hands move as a pair from a location near the subject location (the giver) toward the object location (the person to whom something is given).
- MEET: A two-handed sign in which the signer's hands move toward each other, each starting at locations near the subject and object of the verb (the two people meeting). This verb is symmetrical in its performance: the right hand is used for the entity on the right side (whether subject or object), and the left hand is used for the entity on the left side.
- SCOLD: A one-handed sign in which the signer's dominant hand with an index finger extended points to the object (the person being scolded) and wags up and down. This verb only inflects for object location.
- TELL: A one-handed sign in which the signer's dominant hand with index finger extended moves from the mouth toward the location of the object (the person being told something). This verb only inflects for object location.
Movies in AVI video format
The links below will display animations in AVI video format. For all of the examples of inflected verbs below, the subject is located on the signer's far right side and the object is on the signer's left side.
Animations of Uninflected Versions of Five ASL Verbs
ask1h-uninflected, give2h-uninflected, meet-uninflected, scold-uninflected, tell-uninflected.
Animations of Inflected Versions Produced by a Human Animator
ask1h-human, give2h-human, meet-human, scold-human, tell-human.
Animations of Inflected Versions Produced by Our Model
ask1h-model, give2h-model, meet-model, scold-model, tell-model.
Movies in Apple Quicktime m4v MPEG-4 Video format
The links below will display animations in Apple Quicktime m4v MPEG-4 Video format. For all of the examples of inflected verbs below, the subject is located on the signer's far right side and the object is on the signer's left side.
Animations of Uninflected Versions of Five ASL Verbs
ask1h-uninflected, give2h-uninflected, meet-uninflected, scold-uninflected, tell-uninflected.
Animations of Inflected Versions Produced by a Human Animator
ask1h-human, give2h-human, meet-human, scold-human, tell-human.
Animations of Inflected Versions Produced by Our Model
ask1h-model, give2h-model, meet-model, scold-model, tell-model.