Malay alphabet sign language recognition

This paper describes hardware design and sensors setting and configuration for Malay sign language gesture recognition systems. A set of sensors consists of accelerometers and flexure sensors has been setup to capture the movement or gesture of shoulder, elbow, wrist, palm and fingers. This project...

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Main Authors: Tan, Tian-Swee, Salleh, Sh-Hussain, Ariff, A. K., Wang, Wee-Sern
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Published: 2007
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/14203/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260423043_Malay_Alphabet_Sign_Language_Recognition
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spelling my.utm.142032017-06-12T07:10:30Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/14203/ Malay alphabet sign language recognition Tan, Tian-Swee Salleh, Sh-Hussain Ariff, A. K. Wang, Wee-Sern TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering This paper describes hardware design and sensors setting and configuration for Malay sign language gesture recognition systems. A set of sensors consists of accelerometers and flexure sensors has been setup to capture the movement or gesture of shoulder, elbow, wrist, palm and fingers. This project is based on the need of developing an electronic device that can translate the sign language into speech (sound) in order to enable communication to take place between the mute and deaf community with the common public. Hence, the main objective of this project is to develop a system that can convert the sign language into speech so that deaf people are able to communicate efficiently with normal people. This Human-Computer Interaction system is able to recognize 25 common words signing in Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia (BIM) by using the Hidden Markov Models (HMM) method. Both hands are involved to perform the BIM with all the sensors connect wirelessly to a PC with a Bluetooth module. This project aims to capture the hand gestures which involve multiple axis of movement. Altogether 24 sensors have been setup in different hand locations to capture hand and wrist movement in different directions. 2007 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Tan, Tian-Swee and Salleh, Sh-Hussain and Ariff, A. K. and Wang, Wee-Sern (2007) Malay alphabet sign language recognition. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics,Vision, Information and Signal Processing,ROVISP'07, 2007, Penang. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260423043_Malay_Alphabet_Sign_Language_Recognition
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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country Malaysia
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topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Tan, Tian-Swee
Salleh, Sh-Hussain
Ariff, A. K.
Wang, Wee-Sern
Malay alphabet sign language recognition
description This paper describes hardware design and sensors setting and configuration for Malay sign language gesture recognition systems. A set of sensors consists of accelerometers and flexure sensors has been setup to capture the movement or gesture of shoulder, elbow, wrist, palm and fingers. This project is based on the need of developing an electronic device that can translate the sign language into speech (sound) in order to enable communication to take place between the mute and deaf community with the common public. Hence, the main objective of this project is to develop a system that can convert the sign language into speech so that deaf people are able to communicate efficiently with normal people. This Human-Computer Interaction system is able to recognize 25 common words signing in Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia (BIM) by using the Hidden Markov Models (HMM) method. Both hands are involved to perform the BIM with all the sensors connect wirelessly to a PC with a Bluetooth module. This project aims to capture the hand gestures which involve multiple axis of movement. Altogether 24 sensors have been setup in different hand locations to capture hand and wrist movement in different directions.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Tan, Tian-Swee
Salleh, Sh-Hussain
Ariff, A. K.
Wang, Wee-Sern
author_facet Tan, Tian-Swee
Salleh, Sh-Hussain
Ariff, A. K.
Wang, Wee-Sern
author_sort Tan, Tian-Swee
title Malay alphabet sign language recognition
title_short Malay alphabet sign language recognition
title_full Malay alphabet sign language recognition
title_fullStr Malay alphabet sign language recognition
title_full_unstemmed Malay alphabet sign language recognition
title_sort malay alphabet sign language recognition
publishDate 2007
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/14203/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260423043_Malay_Alphabet_Sign_Language_Recognition
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