Research Article

Computer Vision-Enabled Character Recognition of Hand Gestures for Patients with Hearing and Speaking Disability

Table 1

Brief review of the work carried out on gesture recognition by various researchers.

S. no.Author, yearTechniqueObjective and outcome

1Tran et al., 2020 [28]3 DCNNFingertip detection with hand gesture recognition was achieved with good accuracy levels for recognition of the patterns on a big dataset
2Huang et al., 2019 [22]Skin detection and deep learningFirstly detects the skin followed by contour and segment recognition and finally gesture identification for various 10 symbols
3Fhager et al., 2019 [21]Pulsed radar and CNNFramed time envelope scheme is used to represent data, and further machine learning operations are performed to extract gesture information
4Aly et al., 2019 [20]Deep learning and PCA netThe proposed model used principal component analysis for feature selection and SVM for classifying the gestures
5Sanchez-Riera et al., 2018 [27]ICP minimization and deep learningThis article introduces the variability adjustment of hand gestures of different persons with a high degree of accuracy
6Lai et al., 2018 [24]DSP using FSP algorithmIn this work, a real-time hand gesture evaluation system has been proposed. It is also explored for use in volume control and TV channel changing. The work had an accuracy of 94.3%
7Ryu et al., 2018 [26]FCFW and feature analysisGesture recognition is performed by FCFW, and a new feature extraction technique is proposed which performs fairly well compared to the existing techniques
8Kim et al., 2017 [23]Ultra-wideband impulse and CNNHand gesture cognition is performed using ultra-wideband impulse sensors in this work. The model predicts 6 hand gestures with 90% accuracy
9Chen et al., 2014 [29]Background subtraction techniqueUsed the background subtraction method for gesture recognition on a dataset of 1300 images
10Lee and Tanaka, 2013 [25]Depth-based hand recognitionEvaluated 6 hand gestures with volunteers and achieved an accuracy of nearly 91% for the recognition of gestures