{
  "id": 413378,
  "title": "The role of face features/coordinates in spellings",
  "url": "/competitions/asl-fingerspelling/discussion/413378",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2023-05-28T11:37:31.930742400Z",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>I am wondering why there are face coordinates in the dataset? I don't know how it contributes to fingerspelling. If it does contribute, then why they call it fingerspelling which is specific to fingers only? It should be like face-finger spelling or finger-face spelling maybe.</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "2278137",
      "postDate": "05/28/2023 11:37:31",
      "content": "<p>I am wondering why there are face coordinates in the dataset? I don't know how it contributes to fingerspelling. If it does contribute, then why they call it fingerspelling which is specific to fingers only? It should be like face-finger spelling or finger-face spelling maybe.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I am wondering why there are face coordinates in the dataset? I don't know how it contributes to fingerspelling. If it does contribute, then why they call it fingerspelling which is specific to fingers only? It should be like face-finger spelling or finger-face spelling maybe.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "2278156",
      "postDate": "05/28/2023 11:55:42",
      "content": "<p>They were useful for the previous competition, which was sign language classification.  <br>\nIt seems that some signers say the word by mouth at the same time while showing hand signs.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "They were useful for the previous competition, which was sign language classification.  \nIt seems that some signers say the word by mouth at the same time while showing hand signs.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "2281194",
      "postDate": "05/30/2023 16:49:32",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/bamps53\" target=\"_blank\">@bamps53</a> is correct.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "bamps53 is correct.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "2283434",
      "postDate": "06/01/2023 08:51:44",
      "content": "<p>Thank you.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 2278156,
      "author_name": "bamps53",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "05/28/2023 11:55:42",
      "content": "<p>They were useful for the previous competition, which was sign language classification.  <br>\nIt seems that some signers say the word by mouth at the same time while showing hand signs.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2281194,
          "author_name": "sohier",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "05/30/2023 16:49:32",
          "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/bamps53\" target=\"_blank\">@bamps53</a> is correct.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 2283434,
          "author_name": "meancoder",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "06/01/2023 08:51:44",
          "content": "<p>Thank you.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "2278137": "I am wondering why there are face coordinates in the dataset? I don't know how it contributes to fingerspelling. If it does contribute, then why they call it fingerspelling which is specific to fingers only? It should be like face-finger spelling or finger-face spelling maybe.",
    "2278156": "They were useful for the previous competition, which was sign language classification.  \nIt seems that some signers say the word by mouth at the same time while showing hand signs.",
    "2281194": "bamps53 is correct.",
    "2283434": "Thank you."
  },
  "source": "meta"
}