Vision-Based Recognition of Hand Shapes in Taiwanese Sign Language

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  • Jung-Ning Huang
  • Pi-Fuei Hsieh
  • Chung-Hsien Wu
چکیده

The pixel-based shape representation has been sensitive to rotation. In this paper, we propose a pixel-based descriptor that is invariant with rotation and scale for the hand shape recognition in Taiwanese Sign Language (TSL). Based on the property that a hand shape is characteristic of a unique pointing direction, angle normalization is used to meet the rotation-invariant requirement. With angle normalization, the traces of class covariance matrices have been reduced almost all over the classes of hand shapes, implying a less overlap between classes. It is confirmed by the experiments that show an increase in recognition accuracy.

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تاریخ انتشار 2005