{"id":559521,"date":"2019-02-05T18:10:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T02:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&p=559521"},"modified":"2019-02-19T18:18:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T02:18:28","slug":"microsoft-ai-for-accessibility-sign-language-recognition-translation-workshop","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/microsoft-ai-for-accessibility-sign-language-recognition-translation-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft AI for Accessibility Sign Language Recognition & Translation Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"
Organizers:<\/strong> Summary: Microsoft is bringing together a diverse group of experts with relevant skills for a 2-day workshop, to discuss the state-of-the-art, imminent challenges, and possible solutions in the area of sign language recognition and translation. A main goal for the workshop is to produce a map of the current landscape and a set of challenges for the community to tackle next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 2-day academic workshop, to discuss the state-of-the-art, imminent challenges, and possible solutions in the area of sign language recognition and translation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"msr_startdate":"2019-02-25","msr_enddate":"2019-02-26","msr_location":"Microsoft Research Redmond, Building 99, room 1919 (1927 and 1915 available for breakouts if needed)","msr_expirationdate":"","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_event_link":"","msr_event_link_redirect":false,"msr_event_time":"9:00 AM \u2013 8:00 PM, 9:00 AM \u2013 3:00 PM","msr_hide_region":false,"msr_private_event":true,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[13556,13562,13551,13545,13554],"msr-region":[197900],"msr-event-type":[197944],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-program-audience":[],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-559521","msr-event","type-msr-event","status-publish","hentry","msr-research-area-artificial-intelligence","msr-research-area-computer-vision","msr-research-area-graphics-and-multimedia","msr-research-area-human-language-technologies","msr-research-area-human-computer-interaction","msr-region-north-america","msr-event-type-hosted-by-microsoft","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_about":"Organizers:<\/strong>\r\nDanielle Bragg, Postdoctoral Researcher\r\nMeredith Ringel Morris, Principal Researcher\r\nMary Bellard, Senior Accessibility Architect\r\n\r\nSummary:\r\n<\/b>Developing successful sign language recognition and translation systems requires expertise in a wide range of fields, including computer vision, computer graphics, natural language processing, linguistics, and Deaf culture. In an effort to support people who are Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing to communicate in the language of their choice in more scenarios, we want to better understand advancements in sign language recognition and translation, and explore what is possible in this area of technology.\r\n\r\nMicrosoft is bringing together a diverse group of experts with relevant skills for a 2-day workshop, to discuss the state-of-the-art, imminent challenges, and possible solutions in the area of sign language recognition and translation. A main goal for the workshop is to produce a map of the current landscape and a set of challenges for the community to tackle next.","tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"Schedule","content":"Date:<\/strong> Monday, February 25, 2019 \u2013 Tuesday, February 26, 2019\r\n\r\nTime:<\/strong> 9:00 AM \u2013 8:00 PM, 9:00 AM \u2013 3:00 PM\r\n\r\nLocation:<\/strong> @ Microsoft Research Redmond, Building 99, room 1919\u00a0\u00a0 (1927 and 1915 available for breakouts if needed)\r\n\r\nMonday, February 25, 2019<\/strong>\r\n
\nDanielle Bragg, Postdoctoral Researcher
\nMeredith Ringel Morris, Principal Researcher
\nMary Bellard, Senior Accessibility Architect<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Developing successful sign language recognition and translation systems requires expertise in a wide range of fields, including computer vision, computer graphics, natural language processing, linguistics, and Deaf culture. In an effort to support people who are Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing to communicate in the language of their choice in more scenarios, we want to better understand advancements in sign language recognition and translation, and explore what is possible in this area of technology.<\/p>\n