Presentation 2015-06-19
Contour-based Hand Shape Recognition for Sign Language Recognition
Mika Hatano, Shinji Sako, Tadashi Kitamura,
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Abstract(in English) We are trying to make a real-time Japanese sign language recognition system with abstraction of hand motion based on three elements of sign language: motion, position, and shape. This paper considers the method of hand shape recognition using depth images obtained from Kinect v2 sensor. We apply a contour-based method suggested by Keogh to it. This method recognizes a contour by discriminators learned from contours. We conduct experiments to recognize 23 hand shapes in 400 Japanese sign language words.
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Keyword(in English) hand shape / hand pose / contour / edge / sign language recognition / real-time / Kinect
Paper # PRMU2015-62,SP2015-31,WIT2015-31
Date of Issue 2015-06-11 (PRMU, SP, WIT)

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Committee WIT / SP / ASJ-H / PRMU
Conference Date 2015/6/18(2days)
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Chair Kiyohiko Nunokawa(Tokyo International Univ.) / Kazunori Mano(Shibaura Inst. of Tech.) / Masato Akagi(北陸先端大) / Eisaku Maeda(NTT)
Vice Chair Chikamune Wada(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.) / Norihide Kitaoka(Tokushima Univ.) / Shigeto Furukawa(NTT) / Shuji Senda(NEC) / Seiichi Uchida(Kyushu Univ.)
Secretary Chikamune Wada(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / Norihide Kitaoka(AIST) / Shigeto Furukawa(Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.) / Shuji Senda(Tokyo City Univ.) / Seiichi Uchida(Kobe Univ.)
Assistant Tomohiro Amemiya(NTT) / Takeaki Shionome(Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.) / Manabi Miyagi(Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.) / Takashi Nose(Tohoku Univ.) / Taichi Asami(NTT) / / Kazuaki Kondo(Kyoto Univ.) / Akisato Kimura(NTT)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Well-being Information Technology / Technical Committee on Speech / * / Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Contour-based Hand Shape Recognition for Sign Language Recognition
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) hand shape
Keyword(2) hand pose
Keyword(3) contour
Keyword(4) edge
Keyword(5) sign language recognition
Keyword(6) real-time
Keyword(7) Kinect
1st Author's Name Mika Hatano
1st Author's Affiliation Nagoya Institute of Technology(NITech)
2nd Author's Name Shinji Sako
2nd Author's Affiliation Nagoya Institute of Technology(NITech)
3rd Author's Name Tadashi Kitamura
3rd Author's Affiliation Nagoya Institute of Technology(NITech)
Date 2015-06-19
Paper # PRMU2015-62,SP2015-31,WIT2015-31
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) PRMU-98,SP-99,WIT-100
Page pp.pp.175-180(PRMU), pp.175-180(SP), pp.175-180(WIT),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2015-06-11 (PRMU, SP, WIT)