Assistive Device for the Translation from Mexican Sign Language to Verbal Language

Authors

  • Hector Varela-Santos Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria de Ingeniería Zacatecas
  • Anahí Morales-Jiménez Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria de Ingeniería Zacatecas
  • Diana Margarita Cordova-Esparza Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Facultad de Informática
  • Juan Terven AiFi Inc.
  • Flabio Dario Mirelez-Delgado Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria de Ingeniería Zacatecas
  • Adán Orenday-Delgado Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria de Ingeniería Zacatecas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13053/cys-25-3-3459

Keywords:

Assistive devices, mexican sign language, computer vision

Abstract

In this work, we present the design and implementation of an assistive device for people with hearing disabilities, which allows words from Mexican Sign Language to be translated into verbal language. The device consists of a wearable embedded computer with a camera and a pair of gloves. The system captures the hand-gesture images, extracts features from the gloves, and runs an Artificial Neural Network as a classifier. Our system achieves an average precision of 88% and an average recall of 90% on 20 signals.

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Published

2021-08-17

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 3 (2021): 25(3) 2021

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