Part of the KMMS Research and Cognitive Science and Imaging (CSI) lab series, this talk will provide an overview of current projects at Surrey that are developing automatic video recognition, translation, and sign production alongside AI tools for data processing and linguistic annotation/study. The talk will also introduce Signapse, a University of Surrey spin-out, deploying early versions of these technologies in real-world contexts such as transport. Finally, the talk will discuss current challenges from a technical, societal, and ethical perspective.

Speaker: Professor Richard Bowden, University of Surrey. Richard Bowden is Professor of Computer Vision and Machine Learning within the Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing at the University of Surrey. He is also co-founder of Signapse. His research centres on the use of computer vision to locate, track, and understand humans with a specific interest and focus on sign languages. Having worked on many areas of computer vision, including robotics, autonomous vehicles and the tracking and analysis of humans. He has been developing computational approaches to sign language recognition and translation for over 30 years. Over the last few years Richard has refocused his entire research group on Sign Language Translation, with recent funding including a large grant from Google to reduce the cost of translation through AI and SignGPT, which aims to develop the next generation of AI tools for sign languages.

About the CSI LabThe CSI Lab is a collaboration hub for researchers and clinicians from around the world who investigate the cognitive processes and neural networks involved in all psychiatric illness. We aim to use the results of our research to help develop new and effective treatments, and to improve services, and the organisations that deliver them.

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