Annual Report 2020–21

研究、創新與創業 Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship 39 The CUHK’s Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies, in collaboration with Google, The Nippon Foundation (Japan) and the Kwansei Gakuin University launched the world’s first multi- language online sign language game, SignTown on the 2021 International Day of Sign Language. Adopting advanced AI-based sign language recognition technology and a sign linguistics theoretical framework, SignTown is a significant breakthrough in the development of sign language recognition models and a major stride in enhancing social inclusion by enabling users, hearing or deaf, to learn the culture of signs and the deaf and sign languages in Hong Kong and Japan in a fun way. 中大手語及聾人研究中心、Google、日 本財團和關西學院大學 於2021年「國際 手語日」正式推出全球首個結合先進人 工智能手語識別技術和手語語言學理 論的多語言網絡遊戲 「手語村」 ，不但 是手語識別技術上的重大突破，更讓健 聽或聽障用戶輕鬆地學習港、日兩地的 手語和聾人文化，推廣聾健共融。 中大未來城市研究所與中國城市規劃 研究院 簽署新一期 戰略合作夥伴關係 備忘錄 ，加強雙方在創新科技、城市大 數據、粵港城市規劃研究成果及研究 資源等方面的合作交流，鞏固大灣區智 慧城市群的發展。 A renewed Memorandum of Understanding was signed between CUHK’s Institute of Future Cities and the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design for a strengthened partnership on exchanging innovation and technology, urban big data, Hong Kong– Guangdong town planning research outcomes, and research capacities, to further expand the smart cities cluster in the Greater Bay Area. 中大與復旦大學攜手成立「 香港中文 大學—復旦大學生命科學醫學聯合研 究中心」 ，共同構建一個實體化平台， 深化兩校的科研交流，寫下生命科學及 醫學研究的新一頁。 CUHK and Fudan University jointly established the Chinese University of Hong Kong—Fudan University Joint Research Centre in Life and Biomedical Sciences . The Centre provides a substantive platform for deepening scientific research exchanges between the two universities to promote the development of emerging fields of life sciences and medicine. 「手語村」利用機器學習模型辨 識手語的語音特徵。 SignTown adopts an AI machine learning model to track the phonetic features of sign language. 6 6