title: 'LipTelephone' a videophone for the deaf.
abstract: This paper describes the 'LipTelephone' system, which is being developed under a Greek AMEA research project, with the purpose to serve as a videophone that can also be used by lip readers. This system aims to combine model-based with traditional coding techniques in order to exploit the information redundancy in a scene of known content, while achieving high fidelity representation in the specific area of interest, which is the speaker's mouth. The recent MPEG-4 coding standard provides the framework, which is employed, for these purposes.
authors.affiliation: Information Processing Laboratory, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54006, Greece.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sarris
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Simitipoulos
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Strintzis
mesh_terms: D003143:Communication Devices for People with Disabilities; D003638:Deafness / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008085:Lipreading; D013689:Telephone; D014741:Video Recording