Hand Gesture Recognition for Sign Language Recognition: A Review

Pratibha Pandey, Vinay Kumar Jain · 2015

For deaf and dumb people, Sign language is the only way of communication. With the help of sign language, these physical impaired people express their emotions and thoughts to other person. Since for the common person, it is difficult to understand these language therefore often these physically challenged has to keep the translator along with them to communicate with the world. Hence sign language recognition has become empirical task. Since sign language consist of various movement and gesture of hand therefore the accuracy of sign language depends on the accurate recognition of hand gesture. This paper present various method of hand gesture and sign language recognition proposed in the past by various researchers. Keywords—SL, DCT, Self organizing Map, Camshift

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