Color-based hands tracking system for sign language recognition
- 27 November 2002
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 462-467
- https://doi.org/10.1109/afgr.1998.670991
Abstract
The paper describes a real-time system which tracks the uncovered/unmarked hands of a person performing sign language. It extracts the face and hand regions using their skin colors, computes blobs and then tracks the location of each hand using a Kalman filter. The system has been tested for hand tracking using actual sign-language motion by native signers. The experimental results indicate that the system is capable of tracking hands even while they are overlapping the face.Keywords
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