Modern Computational Techniques for Engineering Applications

Chapter 11 Sign language and hand gesture recognition using machine learning techniques A comprehensive review

Janpreet Singh and Dalwinder Singh

Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India

DOI: 10.1201/9781003407409-11

Contents

1. 11.1 Introduction
2. 11.2 Challenges in recognition of hand gestures
3. 11.3 Approaches’ types
4. 11.4 Literature review on vision-based gesture recognition
5. 11.5 Data acquisition
6. 11.6 Pre-processing of acquired data
7. 11.7 Segmentation
   • 11.7.1 Segmentation of skin color
   • 11.7.2 Other methods for segmentation
   • 11.7.3 Tracking
8. 11.8 Feature extraction
   • 11.8.1 Principal component analysis (PCA)
   • 11.8.2 Linear discriminant analysis (LDA)
   • 11.8.3 Shift-invariant feature transform (SIFT)
9. 11.9 Classification
   • 11.9.1 Artificial neural ...