--- title: "Vietnamese sign language reader" url: "https://vanducng.dev/2014/03/23/Vietnamese-sign-language-reader/" date: "2014-03-23" categories: ["Projects"] tags: ["ml"] --- # Vietnamese sign language reader

This project describes a computer based system that utilizes a 3D sensor to bridge the communication barrier between hearing (and/or speech) impaired people and hearing ones. Above figure shows how `I love Vietnam` demonstrated in Vietnamese Sign Language. The proposed Vietnamese sign language reader successfully recognizes 28 static and 7 dynamic gestures taken from the Vietnam sign language dictionary. To recognize the gestures of a static type, various techniques have been deployed, such as Gabor Filtering, Fisher's Discriminant Analysis and Cosine Metric Distance method. The proposed technique achieves a good result with 93.89% accuracy and speed of 14 frames per second. Recognition of the dynamic gestures is based on the $1 Recognizer algorithm providing quite a good accuracy with 97.14% of accurate recognition with real-time running at 15 frames per second. ## Demo This is a quick demo video recorded on my laptop in Fall 2013, Australia. [YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyM6wD-grZI) ## Results * This project is part of my thesis which can be read from [HERE](https://github.com/vanducng/vietnamese-language-reader/blob/master/Thesis.pdf) for further details. * This project also gained a good feedbacks from my professors and my paper proposal finally got published in [IEEE](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7081128); if you want to read, the paper is assessable from [RESEARCH GATE](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282311300_Vietnamese_sign_language_reader_using_Intel_Creative_Senz3D) * I published the source here for anyone interested in Vietnamese Sign Language reader with new technology. [https://github.com/vanducng/vietnamese-language-reader](https://github.com/vanducng/Vietnamese-Language-Reader)