Gaze tracking and its application to video coding for sign language.

Muir, Laura; Richardson, Iain; Leaper, Steven

Abstract

Sign language communication via videotelephone has demanding visual quality requirements. In order to optimise video coding for sign language it is necessary to quantify the importance of areas of the video scene. Eye movements of deaf users are tracked whilst watching a sign language video sequence. The results indicate that the gaze tends to concentrate on the face region with occasional excursions (saccades). The implications of these results for prioritised coding of sign language video sequences are discussed.

Citation

MUIR, L., RICHARDSON, I. and LEAPER, S. 2003. Gaze tracking and its application to video coding for sign language. In Proceedings of the 2003 Picture coding symposium (PCS 2003), 23-25 April 2003, Saint-Malo, France. Le Chesnay: INRIA, pages 321-325.

• Conference Name: 2003 Picture coding symposium (PCS 2003)
• Conference Location: Saint-Malo, France
• Start Date: Apr 23, 2003
• End Date: Apr 25, 2003
• Acceptance Date: Feb 1, 2003
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2003
• Deposit Date: Jul 5, 2013
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 5, 2013
• Publisher: INRIA Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
• Pages: 321-325
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/829