Korean Manual Alphabet (KMA) Recognition for Composition of a Korean Syllable Character
Young-Joon Oh, Kwang‐Hyun Park, Zeungnam Bien · 2007 International Conference on Convergence Information Technology (ICCIT 2007) · 2007
Sign language is complex visual-spatial language most used in deaf society, and is a representative example of hand gesture with linguistic structure. Korean manual alphabet is a manual alphabet that expresses the vowel and the consonant of Korean sign language. This paper presents a system which recognizes the Korean manual alphabet (KMA) using a USB camera and translates into a normal Korean character. The system captures images from a camera and extracts skin color region from an image, and finds a hand region. The system detects a skin colored hand without particular cloth in a complex background. We use 33 KMA hand shapes as template images, and the system compares hand shape with template images using a correlation coefficient method and composes a text syllable of initial consonant, medial vowel and final consonant.