Review on sign language recognition methods for supporting communication between deaf and non-deaf persons

Abstract

With the rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT), the communication sector has improved continuously. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field which has a broad, highly technical and specialised research area focusing on different types of sub areas and has generated a lot of interest with many novel applications in the IT world. Along with recent developments in image processing, AI has also been used to automatically recognise sign language gestures, in what is known as automatic sign language recognition (ASLR). This paper reviews methods of facilitating the communication between deaf and non-deaf persons.