Advanced Studies and Research Center (CINVESTAV), National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Zapopan 45019, Mexico.
CONACYT-Advanced Studies and Research Center (CINVESTAV), National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Zapopan 45019, Mexico.
Sensors (Basel). 2017 Sep 22;17(10):2176. doi: 10.3390/s17102176.
This paper reports the design and analysis of an American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet translation system implemented in hardware using a Field-Programmable Gate Array. The system process consists of three stages, the first being the communication with the neuromorphic camera (also called Dynamic Vision Sensor, DVS) sensor using the Universal Serial Bus protocol. The feature extraction of the events generated by the DVS is the second part of the process, consisting of a presentation of the digital image processing algorithms developed in software, which aim to reduce redundant information and prepare the data for the third stage. The last stage of the system process is the classification of the ASL alphabet, achieved with a single artificial neural network implemented in digital hardware for higher speed. The overall result is the development of a classification system using the ASL signs contour, fully implemented in a reconfigurable device. The experimental results consist of a comparative analysis of the recognition rate among the alphabet signs using the neuromorphic camera in order to prove the proper operation of the digital image processing algorithms. In the experiments performed with 720 samples of 24 signs, a recognition accuracy of 79.58% was obtained.
本文报告了一个使用现场可编程门阵列(FPGA)硬件实现的美国手语(ASL)字母翻译系统的设计和分析。该系统的处理过程分为三个阶段,第一阶段是使用通用串行总线(USB)协议与神经形态相机(也称为动态视觉传感器,DVS)传感器进行通信。DVS 生成的事件的特征提取是该过程的第二部分,包括开发的软件数字图像处理算法的介绍,这些算法旨在减少冗余信息并为第三阶段准备数据。系统处理的最后一个阶段是 ASL 字母的分类,通过在数字硬件中实现单个人工神经网络来实现更高的速度。整体结果是开发了一种使用 ASL 符号轮廓的分类系统,完全在可重构设备中实现。实验结果包括使用神经形态相机对字母符号的识别率进行比较分析,以证明数字图像处理算法的正常运行。在对 24 个符号的 720 个样本进行的实验中,获得了 79.58%的识别准确率。