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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Spatial Attention-Based 3D Graph Convolutional Neural Network for Sign Language Recognition.

Muneer Al-Hammadi, Mohamed A Bencherif, Mansour Alsulaiman, Ghulam Muhammad, Mohamed Amine Mekhtiche, Wadood Abdul, Yousef A Alohali, Tareq S Alrayes, Hassan Mathkour, Mohammed Faisal and 4 more

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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14 authors.

Muneer Al-HammadiCentre of Smart Robotics Research (CS2R), King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia.
Mohamed A BencherifCentre of Smart Robotics Research (CS2R), King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-8147-8679
Mansour AlsulaimanCentre of Smart Robotics Research (CS2R), King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia.
Ghulam MuhammadCentre of Smart Robotics Research (CS2R), King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-9781-3969
Mohamed Amine MekhticheCentre of Smart Robotics Research (CS2R), King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia.
Wadood AbdulCentre of Smart Robotics Research (CS2R), King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-6871-6633
Yousef A AlohaliCentre of Smart Robotics Research (CS2R), King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia.
Tareq S AlrayesDepartment of Special Education, College of Education, King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia.
Hassan MathkourCentre of Smart Robotics Research (CS2R), King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed FaisalCentre of Smart Robotics Research (CS2R), King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed AlgabriCentre of Smart Robotics Research (CS2R), King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia.
Hamdi AltaheriCentre of Smart Robotics Research (CS2R), King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-1780-6388
Taha AlfakihCentre of Smart Robotics Research (CS2R), King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-0366-5932
Hamid GhalebCentre of Smart Robotics Research (CS2R), King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia.

Funding

Targeted Research Grant Program - The National Transformation Program in King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Grant No. 5-18-03-001-0003
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sign language is the main channel for hearing-impaired people to communicate with others. It is a visual language that conveys highly structured components of manual and non-manual parameters such that it needs a lot of effort to master by hearing people. Sign language recognition aims to facilitate this mastering difficulty and bridge the communication gap between hearing-impaired people and others. This study presents an efficient architecture for sign language recognition based on a convolutional graph neural network (GCN). The presented architecture consists of a few separable 3DGCN layers, which are enhanced by a spatial attention mechanism. The limited number of layers in the proposed architecture enables it to avoid the common over-smoothing problem in deep graph neural networks. Furthermore, the attention mechanism enhances the spatial context representation of the gestures. The proposed architecture is evaluated on different datasets and shows outstanding results.

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Neural Networks, ComputerSign LanguageGesturesHumansLanguageRecognition, Psychologyattentiondeep learninggraph convolutional neural network (GCN)sign language recognition

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PMID35746341
PMCPMC9227856

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