Inspiration
We were inspired by the live translation of spoken languages by the pixel earbuds and wanted to implement a similar feature for gestural languages as well.
What it does
It take feed from a webcam, sends it to a server, which extracts and interprets a hand gesture, then prints it to text. We currently have ASL letter gestures.
How we built it
We used the TensorFlow and Keras APIs to perform image recognition, and OpenCV to extract the hand gesture from a video feed. We tried to used Google Cloud Platform to facilitate model training using GPU acceleration.
Challenges we ran into
The dataset we had was extremely large, but only contained a few people's hands. We found the model often began overfitting to a few limited values. Furthermore, we were unable to perfectly merge the frontend and backend, preventing the translated information to be pushed back to the website.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We implemented a live video processor/extractor.
What's next for signCV
We plan to train the model using a larger, more varied dataset.
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