A New 27 Class Sign Language Dataset Collected from 173 Individuals
This addresses a domain-specific problem for speech-impaired individuals, but it is incremental as it primarily introduces a new dataset without novel methods.
The paper tackles the communication difficulties faced by speech-impaired individuals using sign language by presenting a new dataset of American Sign Language photographs collected from 173 volunteers, published as a 27-class dataset on Kaggle.
After the interviews, it has been comprehended that speech-impaired individuals who use sign languages have difficulty communicating with other people who do not know sign language. Due to the communication problems, the sense of independence of speech-impaired individuals could be damaged and lead them to socialize less with society. To contribute to the development of technologies, that can reduce the communication problems of speech-impaired persons, a new dataset was presented with this paper. The dataset was created by processing American Sign Language-based photographs collected from 173 volunteers, published as 27 Class Sign Language Dataset on the Kaggle Datasets web page.