Another progress that I
made in this month is contacting Kitware company. As Mr. Calos and Ms. Bernard
both have personal contacts at Kitware, I decided to draft an email describing
my product and asking for advice on my current technical problem.
First of all, I organized
my thoughts on the parts of my project overall, including the concept, the form
of product, functions, and applications of deep learning technologies.
Then I focused on the
method of sign language movement detection (sign language sample collection is where
the technical limitation is at). In terms of sign language recognition, the
traditional way is that camera is held
by a hearing person who is opposite to the hearing impacted person and the
camera lens is pointed towards to face of the person who uses sign language,
but I proposed a new method that I think would be more user-friendly for the
sign language users—The camera
installed in the smart glasses will capture hand movements with the lens
pointed away from the body through a 180-degree peripheral vision, in order to
make the product more convenient for hearing-impaired people.
I explained my ideas and
concerns in my email to Kitware. I look forward to hearing back from them and
hope to make further connections with their technical teams for further
consulting.
