Automatic recognition of the American sign language fingerspelling alphabet to assist people living with speech or hearing impairments

 

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Autoři: Quesada Quirós, Luis, López Herrera, Gustavo, Guerrero Blanco, Luis Alberto
Médium: artículo original
Datum vydání:2017
Popis:Sign languages are natural languages used mostly by deaf and hard of hearing people. Different development opportunities for people with these disabilities are limited because of communication problems. The advances in technology to recognize signs and gestures will make computer supported interpretation of sign languages possible. There are more than 137 different sign languages around the world; therefore, a system that interprets them could be beneficial to all, especially to the Deaf Community. This paper presents a system based on hand tracking devices (Leap Motion and Intel RealSense), used for signs recognition. The system uses a Support Vector Machine for sign classification. Different evaluations of the system were performed with over 50 individuals; and remarkable recognition accuracy was achieved with selected signs (100% accuracy was achieved recognizing some signs). Furthermore, an exploration on the Leap Motion and the Intel RealSense potential as a hand tracking devices for sign language recognition using the American Sign Language fingerspelling alphabet was performed.
Země:Kérwá
Instituce:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Kérwá
OAI Identifier:oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/74423
On-line přístup:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12652-017-0475-7
http://rdcu.be/qiDB
https://hdl.handle.net/10669/74423
Klíčové slovo:American sign language
Leap motion
Intel RealSense
Support vector machine
Automatic sign language recognition
Natural user interfaces