METHOD OF MULTI-MODAL VIDEO ANALYSIS OF HAND MOVEMENTS FOR AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION OF ISOLATED SIGNS OF RUSSIAN SIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

This paper presents a new method for collecting multimodal sign language (SL) databases, which is distinguished by the use of multimodal video data. The paper also proposes a new method of multimodal sign recognition, which is distinguished by the analysis of spatio-temporal visual features of SL units (i.e. lexemes). Generally, gesture recognition is a processing of a video sequence, which helps to extract information on movements of any articulator (a part of the human body) in time and space. With this approach, the recognition accuracy of isolated signs was 88.92%. The proposed method, due to the extraction and analysis of spatio-temporal data, makes it possible to identify more informative features of signs, which leads to an increase in the accuracy of SL recognition.