Recognition of Sign Language Symbols using Templates
Deepika Pahuja, Sarika Jain · 2020
This paper deals with recognition of Sign Language symbols of limited vocabulary. Earlier various techniques were used for sign language recognition for gestures, various postures recognition on different Sign Languages like American, Korean, and British Sign Languages. This work helps us to recognize and learn various sign language symbols used by hearing impaired people for communication. The proposed system works with static images of Sign Language symbols made using face and hands only, system uses the standard symbols of Sign language. Since human beings tend to bear no resemblance in terms of size and shape, the most challenging problem was to correctly classify the information gathered from the input data, captured by webcam and using image processing toolbox of MATLAB.