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dc.contributorDepartment of Computingen_US
dc.creatorBao, Hanqing-
dc.identifier.urihttps://theses.lib.polyu.edu.hk/handle/200/7511-
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.publisherHong Kong Polytechnic University-
dc.rightsAll rights reserveden_US
dc.titleVision-based sign language recognitionen_US
dcterms.abstractSign language recognition is an important subfield of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), which enables people communicating with hearing impaired people conveniently. Many different methods are proposed and apply to the recognition problem previously including several dimensionality reducing methods and classification methods. However due to the complexity of human signs, it has never been an easy task. In this dissertation, different hand shapes of human signers are tracked and segmented from dynamic image sequences with analysis of RGB data and depth data captured by a Kinect sensor. A sparse autoencoder is trained to reconstruct hand shape images into high-level features. The learned features were then fed into a multinomial logistic regression model and trained it to classify signs of digit from 0-9 of Chinese Sign Language (CSL). A total of 4000 hand shape images are collected and used during the experiments and produced reasonable results. The performance of entire system is good to achieve almost realtime sign recognition after the model being trained.en_US
dcterms.extentviii, 59 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.en_US
dcterms.isPartOfPolyU Electronic Thesesen_US
dcterms.issued2014en_US
dcterms.educationalLevelAll Masteren_US
dcterms.educationalLevelM.Sc.en_US
dcterms.LCSHOptical pattern recognition.en_US
dcterms.LCSHSign language.en_US
dcterms.LCSHHuman locomotion -- Analysis -- Data processing.en_US
dcterms.LCSHHong Kong Polytechnic University -- Dissertationsen_US
dcterms.accessRightsrestricted accessen_US

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