Sign Language Recognition for Deaf and Dumb

Sign Language Recognition System to aid Deaf-dumb People Using PCA

The Sign Language is a method of communication for deaf-dumb people. Here vision based approach has been used. This paper presents design and implementation of real time Sign Language Recognition system to recognize 26 gestures from the Indian Sign Language using MATLAB .The signs are captured by using web cam. This signs are preprocessed for feature extraction using HSV color model. The obtain...

A Sign Language Screen Reader for Deaf

Screen reader technology has appeared first to allow blind and people with reading difficulties to use computer and to access to the digital information. Until now, this technology is exploited mainly to help blind community. During our work with deaf people, we noticed that a screen reader can facilitate the manipulation of computers and the reading of textual information. In this paper, we pr...

Sign Language Development in Young Deaf Children

Should All Deaf Children Learn Sign Language?

Every year, 10,000 infants are born in the United States with sensorineural deafness. Deaf children of hearing (and nonsigning) parents are unique among all children in the world in that they cannot easily or naturally learn the language that their parents speak. These parents face tough choices. Should they seek a cochlear implant for their child? If so, should they also learn to sign? As pedi...

Sign language perception research for improving automatic sign language recognition

Current automatic sign language recognition (ASLR) seldom uses perceptual knowledge about the recognition of sign language. Using such knowledge can improve ASLR because it can give an indication which elements or phases of a sign are important for its meaning. Also, the current generation of data-driven ASLR methods has shortcomings which may not be solvable without the use of knowledge on hum...