The use of mobile phones as service-delivery devices in sign language machine translation system

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dc.contributor.advisorConnan, James
dc.contributor.authorGhaziasgar, Mehrdad
dc.contributor.otherDept. of Computer Science
dc.contributor.otherFaculty of Science
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-13T08:06:58Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-30T14:00:46Z
dc.date.available2011/03/03 08:43
dc.date.available2011/03/03
dc.date.available2013-09-13T08:06:58Z
dc.date.available2024-10-30T14:00:46Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionMasters of Scienceen_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis investigates the use of mobile phones as service-delivery devices in a sign language machine translation system. Four sign language visualization methods were evaluated on mobile phones. Three of the methods were synthetic sign language visualization methods. Three factors were considered: the intelligibility of sign language, as rendered by the method; the power consumption; and the bandwidth usage associated with each method. The average intelligibility rate was 65%, with some methods achieving intelligibility rates of up to 92%. The average size was 162 KB and, on average, the power consumption increased to 180% of the idle state, across all methods. This research forms part of the Integration of Signed and Verbal Communication: South African Sign Language Recognition and Animation (SASL) project at the University of the Western Cape and serves as an integration platform for the group's research. In order to perform this research a machine translation system that uses mobile phones as service-delivery devices was developed as well as a 3D Avatar for mobile phones. It was concluded that mobile phones are suitable service-delivery platforms for sign language machine translation systems.en_US
dc.description.countrySouth Africa
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/16951
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectMobile communication systemsen_US
dc.subjectOptical pattern recognitionen_US
dc.subjectCellular telephonesen_US
dc.subjectCellular telephone systemsen_US
dc.subjectCellular telephone services industryen_US
dc.subjectSign languageen_US
dc.subjectImage processingen_US
dc.subjectDigital techniquesen_US
dc.titleThe use of mobile phones as service-delivery devices in sign language machine translation systemen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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