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Translation of Sign Language Finger-Spelling to Text using Image Processing

by Krishna Modi, Amrita More
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 77 - Number 11
Year of Publication: 2013
Authors: Krishna Modi, Amrita More
10.5120/13440-1313

Krishna Modi, Amrita More . Translation of Sign Language Finger-Spelling to Text using Image Processing. International Journal of Computer Applications. 77, 11 ( September 2013), 32-37. DOI=10.5120/13440-1313

@article{ 10.5120/13440-1313,
author = { Krishna Modi, Amrita More },
title = { Translation of Sign Language Finger-Spelling to Text using Image Processing },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { September 2013 },
volume = { 77 },
number = { 11 },
month = { September },
year = { 2013 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 32-37 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume77/number11/13440-1313/ },
doi = { 10.5120/13440-1313 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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Abstract

It is difficult for most of us to imagine, but many who are deaf-mute rely on sign language as their primary means of communication. They, in essence, hear and talk through their hands. Sign languages are visual languages. They are natural languages which are used by many deaf-mute people all over the world. In sign language the hands convey most of the information. Hence, vision-based automatic sign language recognition systems have to extract relevant hand features from real life image sequences to allow correct and stable gesture classification. In our proposed system, we intend to recognize some very basic elements of sign language and to translate them to text. Firstly, the video shall be captured frame-by-frame, the captured video will be processed and the appropriate image will be extracted, this retrieved image will be further processed using BLOB analysis and will be sent to the statistical database; here the captured image shall compared with the one saved in the database and the matched image will be used to determine the performed alphabet sign in the language. Here, we will be implementing only American Sign Language Finger-spellings, and we will construct words and sentences with them.

References
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  2. Chance M. Glenn, Divya Mandloi, Kanthi Sarella, and Muhammed Lonon, An Image Processing Technique for the Translation of ASL Finger-Spelling to Digital Audio or Text. The Laboratory for Advanced Communications Technology / CASCI ECTET Department / CAST Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, New York 14623.
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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Sign language translation Gesture recognition system American Sign Language finger-spellings.