The project will create the first Australian Sign Language fingerspelling generator to allow learners to view fingerspelled words signed naturally by an avatar. The generator will allow users to type any word in English and see the fingerspelled translation.

The fingerspelled content will be interactive by allowing the user to rotate the view in 3D space and observe the fingerspelling from different angles. The generator will be made freely available on Signbank: Australia’s premiere Australian Sign Language website and dictionary.

Publications

• Kaustubh Kundu, Hrishav Bakul Barua, Lucy Robertson-Bell, Zhixi Cai, Kalin Stefanov (2026). DexAvatar: 3D Sign Language Reconstruction with Hand and Body Pose Priors Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2026 award finalist)
• Kalin Stefanov, Andre Pham, Antony Loose, Lucy Robertson-Bell, Louisa Willoughby (2026). AuslanSpell: An Interactive Technology for Improving Auslan Fingerspelling Comprehension. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing.