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In this paper, we propose a machine learning-based multi-stream framework to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) manual signs and nonmanual gestures (face and head movements) in real time from RGB-D videos. Our approach is based on 3D Convolutional Neural Networks (3D CNNs) by fusing the multi-modal features including hand gestures, facial expressions, and body poses from multiple channels (RGB, Depth, Motion, and Skeleton joints). To learn the overall temporal dynamics in a video, a proxy video is generated by selecting a subset of frames for each video which are then used to train the proposed 3D CNN model. We collected a new ASL dataset, ASL-100-RGBD, which contains 42 RGB-D videos captured by a Microsoft Kinect V2 camera. Each video consists of 100 ASL manual signs, along with RGB channel, Depth maps, Skeleton joints, Face features, and HD face. The dataset is fully annotated for each semantic region (i.e. the time duration of each sign that the human signer performs). Our proposed method achieves 92.88% accuracy for recognizing 100 ASL sign glosses in our newly collected ASL-100-RGBD dataset. The effectiveness of our framework for recognizing hand gestures from RGB-D videos is further demonstrated on a large-scale dataset, ChaLearn IsoGD, achieving the state-of-the-art results.
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A Wireframe-Based Approach for Classifying and Acquiring Proficiency in the American Sign Language (Student Abstract)
We describe our methodology for classifying ASL (American Sign Language) gestures. Rather than operate directly on raw images of hand gestures, we extract coor-dinates and render wireframes from individual images to construct a curated training dataset. This dataset is then used in a classifier that is memory efficient and provides effective performance (94% accuracy). Because we con-struct wireframes that contain information about several angles in the joints that comprise hands, our methodolo-gy is amenable to training those interested in learning ASL by identifying targeted errors in their hand gestures.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2303019
- PAR ID:
- 10537709
- Publisher / Repository:
- AAAI Press
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- Volume:
- 38
- Issue:
- 21
- ISSN:
- 2159-5399
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 23606 to 23607
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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