Using gabor filter bank with downsampling and SVM for visual sign language alphabet recognition

Galal M. Bin Makhashen, Hamzah A. Luqman, El Sayed M. El-Alfy*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

With the increasing advances in computer vision, the research on automated human gesture and sign language has attracted the attention of many researchers. It has many applications for human-computer interaction helping persons with hearing impairment in smart environments. In this paper, we focus on static hand visual features to build a system for recognizing hand and finger gestures representing different sign language alphabets. After hand segmentation, the proposed method employs texture based features extracted by down-sampling Gabor-transformed images using multiple scales and orientations. Then, a support vector machine is used for multi-class classification. The evaluation of the proposed approach on a benchmark dataset for the American sign language has reported over 95% overall accuracy with several signs perfectly recognized.

Original languageEnglish
StatePublished - 2019

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Keywords

  • Downsampling
  • Gabor Filer Bank
  • Gesture Recognition
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Sign Language
  • Support Vector Machine
  • Texture analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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