Malay sign language gesture recognition system

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, Shaikh Salleh, Sheikh Hussain, Ariff, Ahmad Kamarul, Ting, Chee Ming, Siew, Kean Seng, Leong, Seng Huat
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Language:English
Published: 2007
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/7629/
http://eprints.utm.my/7629/1/Sheikh_Hussain_Shaikh_2007_Malay_Sign_Language_Gesture_Recognition.pdf
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author Tan, Tian Swee
Shaikh Salleh, Sheikh Hussain
Ariff, Ahmad Kamarul
Ting, Chee Ming
Siew, Kean Seng
Leong, Seng Huat
author_facet Tan, Tian Swee
Shaikh Salleh, Sheikh Hussain
Ariff, Ahmad Kamarul
Ting, Chee Ming
Siew, Kean Seng
Leong, Seng Huat
author_sort Tan, Tian Swee
building UTeM Institutional Repository
collection Online Access
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.
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spelling utm-76292017-10-12T03:53:03Z http://eprints.utm.my/7629/ Malay sign language gesture recognition system Tan, Tian Swee Shaikh Salleh, Sheikh Hussain Ariff, Ahmad Kamarul Ting, Chee Ming Siew, Kean Seng Leong, Seng Huat 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. 2007-11 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/7629/1/Sheikh_Hussain_Shaikh_2007_Malay_Sign_Language_Gesture_Recognition.pdf Tan, Tian Swee and Shaikh Salleh, Sheikh Hussain and Ariff, Ahmad Kamarul and Ting, Chee Ming and Siew, Kean Seng and Leong, Seng Huat (2007) Malay sign language gesture recognition system. In: Intelligent and Advanced Systems, 2007. ICIAS 2007. International Conference, 25-28 Nov 2007, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658532
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Tan, Tian Swee
Shaikh Salleh, Sheikh Hussain
Ariff, Ahmad Kamarul
Ting, Chee Ming
Siew, Kean Seng
Leong, Seng Huat
Malay sign language gesture recognition system
title Malay sign language gesture recognition system
title_full Malay sign language gesture recognition system
title_fullStr Malay sign language gesture recognition system
title_full_unstemmed Malay sign language gesture recognition system
title_short Malay sign language gesture recognition system
title_sort malay sign language gesture recognition system
topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
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