ABSTRACT
Hand gestures offer people a convenient way to interact with computers, in addition to give them the ability to communicate without physical contact and at a distance, which is essential in today’s health conditions, especially during an epidemic infectious viruses such as the COVID-19 coronavirus. However, factors, such as the complexity of hand gesture patterns, differences in hand size and position, and other aspects, can affect the performance of hand gesture recognition and classification algorithms. Some deep learning approaches such as convolutional neural networks (CNN), capsule networks (CapsNets) and autoencoders have been proposed by researchers to improve the performance of image recognition systems in this particular field: While CNNs are arguably the most widely used networks for object detection and image classification, CapsNets and Autoencoder seem to resolve some of the limitations identified in the first approach. For this reason, in this work, a specific combination of these networks is proposed to effectively solve the ASL problem. The results obtained in this work show that the proposed group with a simple data augmentation process improves precision performance by 99.43%. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of International Journal of Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence is the property of World Scientific Publishing Company and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)