Neurons to Electrons

Final Year Project Report - Chapter 10 10. Virtual 3D hand Modeling 10.1 3D Avatar– the Signing Human To facilitate the communication from normal person to the Deaf/ hearing impaired 3D avatar is used. It facilitates the vision based interpreting of sign language to the Deaf/ hearing impaired . It also helps as a rapid [1] way of learning sign language and verbal language. 10.2               Bones and Joints of a Human Hand The skeleton of a real hand is shown in Figure 10.1 . There are total of 27 boned which are joined together and form the hand. The 21 D egree of Freedom [DOF] of the bone joint s of the h and are controlled by 29 mussels [ 2 ] that enable us to grasp and hold objects properly. Figure 10.1 Bones of the right hand (dorsal view) [4] The constrains of the DOF points are utmost important , because it forms the dynamic behavior of the hand. As shown in Table 10.1, most joints have native angles of ...

Annual Technical Conference 2006 of IET-YMS Sri Lanka, 16 th  October 2010 Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Ruhuna ALLTALK WIRELESS SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER Edi risinghe E.A.M.M, Gamage K.G.C.P,  Kumara M.P.H.N,  Ra thnayake R.M.M.H Supervised by: Dr.   N.D Jayasundere Department of  Electrical and Information Engineering  - University of Ruhuna  - Sri Lanka The Knowledge Network                                                                The Institution of Engineering and Technology is registered as a charity organization 4 Abstract For many deaf people, sign language is the principle means of comm...