Research Article

Classification of the Korean Sign Language Alphabet Using an Accelerometer with a Support Vector Machine

Table 2

Comparison studies on sign language alphabet recognition.

Author, yearNumber of sensorsSensor types (sampling frequency (Hz))Recognition targetsClassification modelNumber of featuresClassification accuracy (%) (random chance)

Abualola et al., 2016 [15]6IMU (100)American sign language alphabet (26)LDAa585.00 (3.85)
Yeo and Shin, 2018 [10]6sEMG (N/A), ACC (N/A), gyro (N/A)Korean sign language alphabet (12)Gaussian model692.40 (vowels) and 95.31 (consonants) (16.67)
This study1ACC (20)Korean sign language alphabet (31)SVMb792.24 (3.23)

aLinear discriminant analysis. bSupport vector machine.