Prof. Dr. Yuji Nagashima

Professor of Speech and Sign Language Informatics · Department of Information Science · Tsukuba University of Technology

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Academic focus & active research

Prof. Dr. Nagashima is an internationally celebrated pioneer in sign language recognition technologies, developing 3D skeleton tracking and neural machine translation models between JSL and written Japanese.

Sign Language Recognition Computer Vision for Gesture Analysis Speech-to-Text Captioning Human Interface Design

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Institution: Tsukuba University of Technology
Department / Faculty: Department of Information Science
Primary Field: Sign Language Recognition
Campus Location: Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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