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Low complexity classification system for glove-based arabic sign language recognition

  • American University of Sharjah

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Abstract

This paper presents a low complexity classification approach for sign language recognition using sensor-based gloves. Each glove includes 5 bend sensors and a 3D accelerometer. The classification approach is based on a novel feature extraction method based on accumulated differences (ADs). The ADs approach projects the dynamics of the glove sensor readings into one feature vector. This vector is normally of high dimensionality as it is meant to capture the dynamics of a sign language gesture. As such, dimensionality reduction using stepwise regression is applied to feature vectors before classification. Thereafter, a simple minimum distance classifier is employed. The proposed system is applied to a dataset Arabic sign language gestures and it yielded a recognition rates 92.5% and 95.1% for user dependent and user independent models respectively. Moreover, the computational complexity of the proposed method is O(N) as compared to the classical approach of Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) which is of O(N 2) complexity.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNeural Information Processing - 19th International Conference, ICONIP 2012, Proceedings
Pages262-268
Number of pages7
EditionPART 3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event19th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2012 - Doha, Qatar
Duration: 12 Nov 201215 Nov 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 3
Volume7665 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference19th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2012
Country/TerritoryQatar
CityDoha
Period12/11/1215/11/12

Keywords

  • Accumulated differences
  • Arabic sign language recognition
  • Dynamic time warping
  • Sensor gloves

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