Towards real-time sign language analysis via markerless gesture tracking

• Main Authors: Akmeliawati, Rini, Dadgostar, Farhad, Demidenko, S., Gamage, N., Kuang, Y.C., Messom, C., Ooi, M., Sarrafzadeh, A., SenGupta, G.
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/5372/1/i2mtc2009_towards.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/5372/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2009.5168637

This paper introduces the gesture and hand posture tracking systems for a prototype real-time New Zealand sign language recognition system. The novelty of this work is in the markerless tracking of 13 gestures plus an unknown gesture category. Currently the gesture set is limited, but over time a mo...