Server-Aided Recognition of Finger Shapes in a Portable System

Abstract

Sign language recognition had been developed for many years, but none of these methods consider about the convinence and availability for deaf community. We propose a client-server system which is designed for easy to use with low-cost equipments. This system consists of a hand-held device client and a computer server, the hand-held device is used to capture the gestures of a user, transmit data to the computer server through wireless network, and receive the result of a recognition for multi-lingual sound or text output. In this system, deaf people with this client could communicate with normal people more easily and efficiently with mobility. This paper implemented the system and examined about the power consumption of the client, the usage of wireless network bandwidth and a set of recognitions in Taiwan sign language.