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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">global-journal-of-computer-science-and-technology-f-graphics-vision</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology - F: Graphics &amp; Vision</journal-title>
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<issn publication-format="print">0975-4350</issn>
<issn publication-format="electronic">0975-4172</issn>
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<article-title>Towards Arabic Alphabet and Numbers Sign Language Recognition</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Hasasneh</surname><given-names>Ahmad</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1" />
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<aff id="aff1">PALESTINE, Palestine Ahliya University</aff>
<pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2017-01-15">
<day>15</day>
<month>01</month>
<year>2017</year>
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<volume>17</volume>
<issue>F2</issue>
<fpage>15</fpage>
<lpage>23</lpage>
<abstract><p>This paper proposes to develop a new Arabic sign language recognition using Restricted Boltzmann Machines and a direct use of tiny images. Restricted Boltzmann Machines are able to code images as a superposition of a limited number of features taken from a larger alphabet. Repeating this process in deep architecture (Deep Belief Networks) leads to an efficient sparse representation of the initial data in the feature space. A complex problem of classification in the input space is thus transformed into an easier one in the feature space. After appropriate coding, a softmax regression in the feature space must be sufficient to recognize a hand sign according to the input image. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt that tiny images feature extraction using deep architecture is a simpler alternative approach for Arabic sign language recognition that deserves to be considered and investigated.</p></abstract>
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<kwd>component; arabic sign language recognition</kwd>
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<p>This paper proposes to develop a new Arabic sign language recognition using Restricted Boltzmann Machines and a direct use of tiny images. Restricted Boltzmann Machines are able to code images as a superposition of a limited number of features taken from a larger alphabet. Repeating this process in deep architecture (Deep Belief Networks) leads to an efficient sparse representation of the initial data in the feature space. A complex problem of classification in the input space is thus transformed into an easier one in the feature space. After appropriate coding, a softmax regression in the feature space must be sufficient to recognize a hand sign according to the input image. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt that tiny images feature extraction using deep architecture is a simpler alternative approach for Arabic sign language recognition that deserves to be considered and investigated.</p>
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