{
  "id": 413378,
  "title": "The role of face features/coordinates in spellings",
  "url": "/competitions/asl-fingerspelling/discussion/413378",
  "author_name": "Salman Ahmad",
  "post_date": "2023-05-28T11:37:31.930000",
  "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": 2278156,
      "postDate": "2023-05-28T11:55:42.877Z",
      "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.\n\n",
      "votes": 2,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2281194,
          "postDate": "2023-05-30T16:49:32.630Z",
          "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/bamps53\" target=\"_blank\">@bamps53</a> is correct.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "@bamps53 is correct.",
          "votes": 1
        },
        {
          "id": 2283434,
          "postDate": "2023-06-01T08:51:44.457Z",
          "content": "<p>Thank you.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Thank you.\n"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 2278137,
      "postDate": "2023-05-28T11:37:31.930Z",
      "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": 2
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 2278156,
      "author_name": "Camaro",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2023-05-28T11:55:42.877000",
      "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": 2,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2281194,
          "author_name": "Sohier Dane",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2023-05-30T16:49:32.630000",
          "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/bamps53\" target=\"_blank\">@bamps53</a> is correct.</p>",
          "votes": 1,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 2283434,
          "author_name": "Salman Ahmad",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2023-06-01T08:51:44.457000",
          "content": "<p>Thank you.</p>",
          "votes": 0,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "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.\n\n",
    "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."
  }
}