Sign Language Detection in Real-Time Applications
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Individuals with hearing and speech impairments often rely on gesture language for communication, but a lack of widespread understanding of this language among others creates significant barriers. A machine learning model that recognizes hand signals and converts them into English can help bridge this gap, facilitating communication between hearing and deaf individuals. Existing non-verbal communication identification systems, while leveraging computational learning and AI models for both single- and double-handed gestures, generally lack real-time capabilities. This research proposes a live symbolic language identification platform that uses a webcam to build a regional gesture communication dataset and TensorFlow for cross-domain learning. Despite a smaller dataset, the system targets high accuracy in recognition. Advanced technologies, including computer vision and deep learning, are applied to improve communication for deaf individuals by developing accessible technical applications and platforms. The proposed model, utilizing TensorFlow and OpenCV, aims to identify commonly used American Sign Language gestures in real time with accuracy and efficiency, including signs such as “hello,” “thanks,” “bye,” “yes,” “no,” “dad,” and “mom.”
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it