Recognition Method and Kitware Contact

January #2

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.