Africa’s media sign language interpreters have raised concerns over low payment, inadequate training, and the absence of interpretation services in important programs meant to cater to the deaf ...

👋 Welcome to the Hand Gesture 2 Robot repository, where you can find an image classification vision-language encoder model specifically designed for recognizing hand gestures and mapping them to ...

Communication services company Sorenson Communications has announced the acquisition of two companies that specialize in sign language interpreting technology. Hand Talk is a startup that uses AI and ...

Word-Level Sign Language Recognition With Multi-Stream Neural Networks Focusing on Local Regions and Skeletal Information. IEEE Access, 2024; 12: 167333 DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3494878 ...

How the System Actually Works The process is more sophisticated than it might seem at first glance. Here is what happens behind the scenes: Hand Detection Stage When you make a sign, MediaPipe first ...

Paper Summary Methodology The study employed a two-step methodology using YOLOv8 and MediaPipe for real-time recognition of American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures. Initially, YOLOv8 was used ...

Transfer learning with YOLOV8 for real-time recognition system of American Sign Language Alphabet. Franklin Open, 2024; 8: 100165 DOI: 10.1016/j.fraope.2024.100165 ...

Annotating sign language videos, however, is far more complex, as it involves various elements such as hand gestures, head movements, body actions, facial expressions, and eye movements.

Sign language is a common way of communication for people with hearing and/or speaking impairments. AI-based automatic systems for sign language recognition are very desirable since they can reduce ...