Hand gesture recognition for Indian Sign Language

In this paper, we introduce a hand gesture recognition system to recognize the alphabets of Indian Sign Language. In our proposed system there are 4 modules: real time hand tracking, hand segmentation, feature extraction and gesture recognition. Camshift method and Hue, Saturation, Intensity (HSV) color model are used for hand tracking and segmentation. For gesture recognition, Genetic Algorithm is used. We propose an easy-to-use and inexpensive approach to recognize single handed as well as double handed gestures accurately. This system can definitely help millions of deaf people to communicate with other normal people.

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