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SignBridge

Sign language recognition for accessible communication

Recognise hand signs from a webcam in real time and turn them into text, helping deaf and hard-of-hearing users communicate.

SHIPSTACK · PROJECT SignBridge Sign language recognition foraccessible communication Beginner Computer Vision 1 Webcam 2 Hand landmarks 3 Classifier 4 Text output 5 milestones

The scenario

SignBridge uses hand-landmark detection and a lightweight classifier to recognise signs live. You will collect your own data, train the model, and build a simple app that assembles recognised signs into words.

System architecture

01 Webcam Live video
02 Hand landmarks MediaPipe
03 Classifier Sign → letter/word
04 Text output Sentence builder

High-level flow of SignBridge, from input to output.

What you will learn

  • Landmark-based features
  • Real-time inference loops
  • Collecting your own dataset

What you will build

  • Data collector
  • Sign classifier
  • Live translation app

Build plan

  1. Collect data
  2. Train classifier
  3. Real-time loop
  4. Sentence builder
  5. Deploy

Tech stack

MediaPipeTensorFlowOpenCVStreamlit