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Presentation 2020-03-06 10:10
A Comparison Study of Neural Sign Language Translation Methods with Spatio-Temporal Features
Kodai Watanabe, Wataru Kameyama (Waseda Univ.) IMQ2019-68 IE2019-150 MVE2019-89
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(in English) In Neural Sign Language Translation, a model based on 2DCNN (2 Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network) called AlexNet and a neural machine translation model called Seq2Seq has been proposed. In this model, temporal information is extracted by GRU (Gated Recurrent Unit) from the features in which the spatial information is lost by 2DCNN. However, since sign language uses position, shape and motion of hands and fingers, a model that can extract temporal information from the features that contain spatial information seems to be more suitable. Therefore, in this paper, we propose various methods and compare them that extract temporal information at the stage of extracting spatial features from each frame of video. As the result of the comparison experiment of the various spatio-temporal feature extractors, it is suggested that the number of to-be-optimized parameters and the performance of sign language translation are inversely proportional on the dataset used in this experiment. That seems the reason why the model using only Optical Flow shows the highest performance in sign language translation because it has the least number of parameters to be trained.
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(in English) Neural Sign Language Translation / Spatio-temporal Features / DNN / Optical Flow / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 119, no. 456, IE2019-150, pp. 273-278, March 2020.
Paper # IE2019-150 
Date of Issue 2020-02-27 (IMQ, IE, MVE) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee IE IMQ MVE CQ  
Conference Date 2020-03-05 - 2020-03-06 
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Place (in English) Kyushu Institute of Technology 
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Conference Code 2020-03-IE-IMQ-MVE-CQ 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) A Comparison Study of Neural Sign Language Translation Methods with Spatio-Temporal Features 
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Keyword(1) Neural Sign Language Translation  
Keyword(2) Spatio-temporal Features  
Keyword(3) DNN  
Keyword(4) Optical Flow  
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1st Author's Name Kodai Watanabe  
1st Author's Affiliation Waseda University (Waseda Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Wataru Kameyama  
2nd Author's Affiliation Waseda University (Waseda Univ.)
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Date Time 2020-03-06 10:10:00 
Presentation Time 25 minutes 
Registration for IE 
Paper # IMQ2019-68, IE2019-150, MVE2019-89 
Volume (vol) vol.119 
Number (no) no.454(IMQ), no.456(IE), no.457(MVE) 
Page pp.273-278 
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Date of Issue 2020-02-27 (IMQ, IE, MVE) 


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