Real-time sign language recognition based on video stream
by Kai Zhao; Kejun Zhang; Yu Zhai; Daotong Wang; Jianbo Su
International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications (IJSCC), Vol. 12, No. 2, 2021

Abstract: In this paper, a real-time Chinese sign language recognition system is investigated. This system can recognise deaf-mute Chinese sign language, and output the recognition results in real time through text. A Chinese sign language dataset is firstly created with a normal RGB camera, and the entire dataset contains 500,000 video samples. In order to improve the recognition accuracy of the system for real-time applications, three-dimensional convolutional neural network (3D-CNN) is investigated, combined with optical flow processing base on total variation regularisation and L1-norm robust (TV-L1). A two-step down-frame processing is employed to extract the equal number of key frames from each video stream, and finally put into 3D-CNN to extract feature vectors. Comparative studies are conducted with that of the hidden Markov model (HMM) and recurrent neural network (RNN), with 92.6% recognition accuracy on a dataset containing 1,000 vocabularies. A complete real-time sign language recognition system is finally developed and reported, which is composed of a human interaction interface, a motion detection module, a hand and head detection module, and a video acquisition mechanism. Experimental results verify the generalisation performance of the system in real-time.

Online publication date: Wed, 28-Apr-2021

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