Researchers in South Korea have developed a ring-based sign language translator that works wirelessly and can recognize ASL and ISL words with roughly 88% accuracy.

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Abstract: Recently, automatic hand gesture recognition has gained increasing importance for two principal reasons: the growth of the deaf and hearing-impaired population, and the development of vision ...

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