CoBaSiL Project
The Content-based video analysis and annotation of Finnish Sign Language (CoBaSiL) research project aims to develop new methods for content-based analysis and annotation of sign language videos. Sign language is an example of a narrow video domain enabling detailed analysis of the semantic contents, while being scientifically interesting for computer vision research due to multiple challenges such as the combination of global and local motion and the presence of occlusions.
The project is a multidisciplinary challenge that calls for expertise in a large variety of scientific fields, and the participants have significant amounts of relevant prior expertise. Aalto University School of Science has a long history in research on content-based image and video retrieval. University of Jyväskylä has conducted research on sign language acquisition focusing in the phonetics and phonology of Finnish Sign Language.
The project is funded by the Academy of Finland and has started on 1.1.2011 and will last to 31.12.2014.
Contact: jorma.laaksonen@aalto.fi
People
- D.Sc. (Tech.) Jorma Laaksonen
- D.Sc. (Tech.) Markus Koskela
- M.Sc. (Tech.) Ville Viitaniemi
- Mr. Matti Karppa
- PhD Tommi Jantunen
- PhD Päivi Rainò