In this paper, 16 static ASL alphabets are to be recognized in real-time using Nokia Lumia 1520 smartphone with Windows Phone 8.1 operating system. The algorithm is developed on top of EmguCV library. All images captured are sampled into resolution of 320 x 240 pixels in RGB format.
The proposed framework first sample RGB value of skin pixels of the signer for calibration to implement automatic detection of hand gesture.