Japanese finger-spelling recognition using a chest-mounted camera

This paper proposes a technique for recognizing Japanese finger-spelling using a sign language user's chest-mounted camera. Unlike existent systems, the technique employs a chest-mounted camera attached to a sign language user himself/herself and recognizes his/her sign language through the cap...

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Published in2012 Proceedings of SICE Annual Conference (SICE) pp. 909 - 912
Main Authors Nagasue, A., Joo Kooi Tan, Hyoungseop Kim, Ishikawa, S.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.08.2012
Subjects
Cameras
Character recognition
computer vision
Gesture recognition
Handicapped aids
Image recognition
Japanese finger-spelling recognition
mobile cameras
motion capture
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Summary:This paper proposes a technique for recognizing Japanese finger-spelling using a sign language user's chest-mounted camera. Unlike existent systems, the technique employs a chest-mounted camera attached to a sign language user himself/herself and recognizes his/her sign language through the captured images of Japanese finger-spelling. We use a hand area picture of his/her hand and the MHIs (Motion History Images) for the Japanese finger-spelling recognition. For the recognition method, we employ the ICA (Independent Component Analysis). Furthermore, in order to recognize the Japanese finger-spelling from an animation (an image sequence), a character segmentation technique is also proposed. The performance of the proposed system is shown experimentally.
ISBN:9781467322591
1467322598