Comparison of American Sign Language Use Identification using Multi-Class SVM Classification, Backpropagation Neural Network, K - Nearest Neighbor and Naive Bayes

Abstract

Communication is essential in conveying information from one individual to another. However, not all individuals in the world can communicate verbally. According to WHO, deafness is a hearing loss that affects 466 million people globally, and 34 million are children. So it is necessary to have a non-verbal language learning method for someone who has hearing problems. The purpose of this study is to build a system that can identify non-verbal language so that it can be easily understood in real-time. A high success rate in the system needs a proper method to be applied in the system, such as machine learning supported by wavelet feature extraction and different classification methods in image processing. Machine learning was applied in the system because of its ability to recognize and compare the classification results in four different methods. The four classifications used to compare the hand gesture recognition from American Sign Language are the Multi-Class SVM classification, Backpropagation Neural Network Backpropagation, K - Nearest Neighbor (K-NN), and Naïve Bayes. The simulation test of the four classification methods that have been carried out obtained success rates of 99.3%, 98.28%, 97.7%, and 95.98%, respectively. So it can be concluded that the classification method using the Multi-Class SVM has the highest success rate in the introduction of American Sign Language, which reaches 99.3%. The whole system is designed and tested using MATLAB as supporting software and data processing.