Research Article

Arabic Sign Language Recognition System for Alphabets Using Machine Learning Techniques

Table 1

Survey of recent Arabic SLR systems.

Ref/yearMethods of collection datasetDataset size and typeClassifierAccuracy in %

[10]/2001Images of bare handStatic alphabet-Arabic manual alphabets (60 examples for each sign where it was made use of 40 training samples and 20 for testing) = 1800 samples for 30 Arabic alphabet charactersNeuro-fuzzy classifier93.55%
[11]/2001Colored images with gloveStatic alphabet-Arabic manual alphabetsANFIS95.5%
[12]/2005Colorful glove with six colored areas in different colorsStatic alphabet-recognition of ArSL alphabet, number of samples is 2323 for 30 different characters for 42 different gestures with a rate of 1625 for training and 698 for testingPolynomial classifier93.41% when the testing data is different from the training data and 98.41% when the training data is the same as the testing data
[13]/2008, 2012Wearing colored gloves with colored markers for the fingers and wristStatic alphabet (30 characters) number of images (900 for training, 300 for testing)Elman and fully recurrent networksThe accuracy rate is 89.66% when using the Elman network and when using the fully RNN the accuracy rate has improved to 95.11%
[14]/2010Free or bare handsVideos containing sequences of characters-Arabic manual alphabet (15 characters)(MDC)
(MLP)
91.3%
83.7%
[15]/2010Free or bare handsStatic alphabet and number (150 images)Euclidean distance measure based on PCA97.0%
[16]/2016Free or bare hands and wearing colored glovesStatic alphabet (2 datasets) (dataset 1 by bare hands 700 samples for 28 characters and dataset 2 by wearing colored gloves = 700 samples for 28 characters)C4.5 (J48), MLP, KNN (IBK), and Naïve-Bayesian classifiers80.67%, 88.66%, 90.7%, 84.4% for dataset 1 and 89.5%, 94.11%, 97.5%, and 96.63% for dataset 2
[17, 18]/2019Free or bare hands and wearing colored glovesA dataset consisting of 54,049 gray scale images representing 32 alphabet letters for the Arabic sign language was collected by 40 signersCNN97.6%