A Wearable Computer Based American Sign Language Recognizer

Modern wearable computer designs package workstation level performance in systems small enough to be worn as clothing. These machines enable technology to be brought where it is needed the most for the handicapped: everyday mobile environments. This paper describes a research effort to make a wearable computer that can recognize (with the possible goal of translating) sentence level American Sign Language (ASL) using only a baseball cap mounted camera for input. Current accuracy exceeds 97% per word on a 40 word lexicon. Keywords sign language recognition, computer vision, wearable computing

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: ASSISTIVE
• Authors: Thad Starner, Joshua Weaver, Alex Pentland
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, ASSISTIVE 1998, Sign Language, Wearable, Wearable Computer