Interpretation and Translation of American Sign Language for Hearing Impaired Individuals using Image Processing

The growth of technology has influenced development in various fields. Technology has helped people achieve their dreams over the past years. One such field that technology involves is aiding the hearing and speech impaired people. The obstruction between common individuals and individuals with hearing and language incapacities can be resolved by using the current technology to develop an environment such that the aforementioned easily communicate among one and other. ASL Interpreter aims to facilitate communication among the hearing and speech impaired individuals. This project mainly focuses on the development of software that can convert American Sign Language to Communicative English Language and vice-versa. This is accomplished via Image-Processing. The latter is a system that does a few activities on a picture, to acquire an improved picture or to extricate some valuable data from it. Image processing in this project is done by using MATLAB, software by MathWorks. The latter is programmed in a way that it captures the live image of the hand gesture. The captured gestures are put under the spotlight by being distinctively colored in contrast with the black background. The cont