A depth-based Indian Sign Language recognition using Microsoft Kinect

• Published in: Sadhana (Bangalore) Vol. 45; no. 1
• Main Authors: Raghuveera, T, Deepthi, R, Mangalashri, R, Akshaya, R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi Springer India 01.12.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Algorithms; Color imagery; Engineering; Feature extraction; Histograms; Human communication; Sentences; Sign language; Support vector machines; Translating; SURF; HOG; gesture translation; ISL gesture recognition; multi-class SVM; depth based; LBP

Recognition of sign language by a system has become important to bridge the communication gap between the abled and the Hearing and Speech Impaired people. This paper introduces an efficient algorithm for translating the input hand gesture in Indian Sign Language (ISL) into meaningful English text a...