A review of hand gesture and sign language recognition techniques

MJ Cheok, Z Omar, MH Jaward - International Journal of Machine …, 2019 - Springer
Hand gesture recognition serves as a key for overcoming many difficulties and providing
convenience for human life. The ability of machines to understand human activities and their …

Quantitative survey of the state of the art in sign language recognition

O Koller - arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.09918, 2020 - arxiv.org
This work presents a meta study covering around 300 published sign language recognition
papers with over 400 experimental results. It includes most papers between the start of the …

Signring: Continuous american sign language recognition using imu rings and virtual imu data

J Li, L Huang, S Shah, SJ Jones, Y Jin… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Sign language is a natural language widely used by Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH)
individuals. Advanced wearables are developed to recognize sign language automatically …

KArSL: Arabic sign language database

AAI Sidig, H Luqman, S Mahmoud… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Sign language is the major means of communication for the deaf community. It uses body
language and gestures such as hand shapes, lib patterns, and facial expressions to convey …

[PDF][PDF] Benchmark databases for video-based automatic sign language recognition

P Dreuw, C Neidle, V Athitsos, S Sclaroff… - … of Language Resources …, 2008 - open.bu.edu
A new, linguistically annotated, video database for automatic sign language recognition is
presented. The new RWTH-BOSTON-400 corpus, which consists of 843 sentences, several …

Combination of tangent distance and an image distortion model for appearance-based sign language recognition

M Zahedi, D Keysers, T Deselaers, H Ney - Pattern Recognition: 27th …, 2005 - Springer
In this paper, we employ a zero-order local deformation model to model the visual variability
of video streams of American sign language (ASL) words. We discuss two possible ways of …

Enhanced continuous sign language recognition using PCA and neural network features

YL Gweth, C Plahl, H Ney - 2012 IEEE Computer Society …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work a Gaussian Hidden Markov Model (GHMM) based automatic sign language
recognition system is built on the SIGNUM database. The system is trained on appearance …

New shared & interconnected asl resources: Signstream® 3 software; dai 2 for web access to linguistically annotated video corpora; and a sign bank

C Neidle, A Opoku, G Dimitriadis… - 8th Workshop on the …, 2018 - par.nsf.gov
2017 marked the release of a new version of SignStream® software, designed to facilitate
linguistic analysis of ASL video. SignStream® provides an intuitive interface for labeling and …

[PDF][PDF] Vision based sign language recognition: modeling and recognizing isolated signs with manual and non-manual components

O Aran - 2008 - Citeseer
This thesis addresses the problem of vision based sign language recognition and focuses
on three main tasks to design improved techniques that increase the performance of sign …

Arabic sign language benchmark database for different heterogeneous sensors

M Alfonse, A Ali, AS Elons, NL Badr… - 2015 5th International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The lack of a visualized representation for standard Arabic Sign Language (ArSL) makes it
difficult to do something as common place as looking up an unknown word in a dictionary …