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A new method for recognizing hand configurations of Brazilian gesture language
Abstract:
This paper describes a new method for recognizing hand configurations of the Brazilian Gesture Language - LIBRAS - using depth maps obtained with a Kinect® camera. The proposed method comprised three phases: hand segmentation, feature extraction, and classification. The segmentation phase is independent from the background and depends only on pixel depth information. Using geometric operations and numerical normalization, the feature extraction process was done independent from rotation and translation. The features are extracted employing two techniques: (2D)2LDA and (2D)2PCA. The classification is made with a novelty classifier. A robust database was constructed for classifier evaluation, with 12,200 images of LIBRAS and 200 gestures of each hand configuration. The best accuracy obtained was 95.41%, which was greater than previous values obtained in the literature.
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