A student from Crete makes computers read sign language and wins an award

First in European competition Stavros Piperakis, a 3rd grade student at the 3rd Lyceum of Heraklion who created an application through which computers translate sign language into text, was awarded.
The student excelled in the “Youth Hacking 4 Freedom” (YH4F) competition, in which teenagers from all over Europe had the opportunity to compete in open source writing. The organizer was the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE).

The SignTrack app is one translators that analyzes, processes, recognizes sign language in real time with exceptional accuracy. Thus, computers become more accessible to everyone and more human-centered.

Stavros Piperakis described his discovery as “a difficult undertaking” that required hard work.

The student from Crete has been involved with computers from a very young age, while he made his first game when he was just 8 years old and continued with other programming.

He has taken part in robotics competitions when he was in High School. More than 100 people took part in the competition in which he won first place.

The application

As for the SignTrack explains how to convert sign to text from a video. The model predicts what you will “say”, once you complete its sentence, an additional processing is done to see if the grammar rules, which differ from language to language, have been followed.

The idea came from school, where Stavros found that there was no corresponding application, accessible to people with hearing problems.

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