Deep Learning-based Bangla Sign Language Detection with an Edge Device

Sign language, often referred to as silent conversation, serves as a visual gesture-based primary communication medium for hearing-impaired individuals. People unable to speak or hear communicate with themselves and general persons with static and dynamic sign languages. To ensure that people who are deaf and unable to talk do not feel excluded from this fast-paced world, it is even more crucial that sign language is incorporated into our culture and that a cost-effective and straightforward method of detecting it be developed. With this goal in mind, an automatic Bangla sign language (BSL) detection system has been developed in this work using deep learning approaches and a Jetson Nano edge device. The deep learning models have been trained with Okkhornama, an…