Research Article

A Model for Qur’anic Sign Language Recognition Based on Deep Learning Algorithms

Table 1

Comparison of the characteristics of recent ArSLR systems.

Ref./yearDataset size and typeClassifierAccuracy in %

[2]/2020100 Arabic signs from regular ArSLEuclidian distance95%

[4]/2016Static alphabet two datasets (dataset 1: 700 samples for 28 characters using bare hands and dataset 2: 700 samples for 28 characters using colored gloves)C4.5 (J48), MLP, K-NN (IBK), and Naïve Bayesian classifiers80.67, 88.66, 90.7%, and 84.4% for dataset 1 and 89.5, 94.11, 97.5, and 96.63 for dataset 2

[6]/201830 people shot actual images using smartphones. Volunteers gesture the 30 ArSL alphabets. Each letter uses 30 of the 900 imagesSVM63.5%

[8]/2017The dataset has 25 words from unified ArSL dictionary3D CNN—softmax layer98% accuracy for observed data and 85% average accuracy for new data

[10]/2020ArSL2018 is comprised of a total of 54,049 images for the 32 ArSL alphabets and signs, which are gathered from 40 different participantsCNN97.6%

[12]/2021ArSL2018 contains 54,049 images of 32 sign language gesturesCNN97.29%

[13]/2020ArSL2018 contains 54,049 images distributed around 32 classes of Arabic signsDeep CNN99%

[14]/2019ArSL2018 dataset consists of 54,049 images with 32 classTransfer learning approach of deep CNN99.52%

[17]/2018450 colored ArSL videos captured at a rate of 30 fpsEuclidean distance classifier97%

[18]/20116,000 sign images are obtained from six gesturesMax-pooling CNN (MPCNN)96%

[19]/20197869 images for recognizing 28 Arabic letters and numbers from 0 to 10CNN90.02%