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Meet today’s guests Sam Sepah and Thad Starner. Sam Sepah, an AI/ML Research Manager at Google, drives innovation in accessibility technology for users with deafness and other disabilities. Thad Starner is a Georgia Tech Professor, wearable computing pioneer, and staff research scientist at Google working on sign language recognition. Explore the transformative impact of AI on sign language recognition and accessibility from the Kaggle competition to Pop Sign AI, and much more!
Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
1:00 - Thad's Story - a Journey into AI and Wearable Computing
19:59 - Sam's Story - Experience as Deaf Individual and Accessibility Advocate
26:34 - The Importance of Early Sign Language Exposure
35:18 - Sam’s Journey to the USA and into Tech
41:06 - The Intersection of Thad's and Sam's Work
41:43 - Google Glass
48:37 - AI Advancements improve Technology for the Deaf Community
54:04 - How Kaggle Competitions have helped push the competition forward
55:21 - PopSign AI
1:05:34 - Sam and Thad’s collaboration
1:13:03 - What does it mean to be a person of AI?
Resources:
Kaggle →
Kaggle Competitions →
PopSign Game →
Precious PopSign Kaggle Competition →
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Speaker: Ashley Oldacre
Products mentioned: MediaPipe
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2024/10/24
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