USER INDEPENDENT SYSTEM FOR RECOGNITION OF HAND POSTURES USED IN SIGN LANGUAGE

Dahmani Djamila, Benchikh Soumia, Slimane Larabi

2012

Abstract

A new signer independent method of recognition of hand postures of sign language alphabet is presented in this paper. We propose a new geometric hand postures features derived from the convex hull enclosing the hand’s shape. These features are combined with the discrete orthogonal Tchebichef moments, and the Hu moments. The Tchebichef moments are applied on the external and internal edges of the hand’s shape. Experiments, based on two different hand posture data sets, show that our method is robust at recognizing hand postures independent of the person performing them. The system obtains a good recognition rates, and also performs well compared to other hand user independent posture recognition systems.

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Djamila D., Soumia B. and Larabi S. (2012). USER INDEPENDENT SYSTEM FOR RECOGNITION OF HAND POSTURES USED IN SIGN LANGUAGE . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM, ISBN 978-989-8425-99-7, pages 581-584. DOI: 10.5220/0003785005810584


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icpram12,
author={Dahmani Djamila and Benchikh Soumia and Slimane Larabi},
title={USER INDEPENDENT SYSTEM FOR RECOGNITION OF HAND POSTURES USED IN SIGN LANGUAGE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM,},
year={2012},
pages={581-584},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003785005810584},
isbn={978-989-8425-99-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM,
TI - USER INDEPENDENT SYSTEM FOR RECOGNITION OF HAND POSTURES USED IN SIGN LANGUAGE
SN - 978-989-8425-99-7
AU - Djamila D.
AU - Soumia B.
AU - Larabi S.
PY - 2012
SP - 581
EP - 584
DO - 10.5220/0003785005810584