[HN Gopher] Show HN: ASL Classifier Built with CoreML and Roboflow
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       Show HN: ASL Classifier Built with CoreML and Roboflow
        
       Author : narner
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2021-02-01 19:56 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | rocauc wrote:
       | Did you find the model to perform better / worse when the
       | background varied? I see it's all wood table examples in the
       | gifs.
        
         | narner wrote:
         | Yeah; I found that if there was a lot of other objects in view
         | (laptop/phone/notebook/pens/etc) then it had a hard time (I'm
         | not great at signing anyways, ha
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         | It may have performed better if I had done some image
         | segmentation processing before running inference, then it may
         | have performed even better
        
       | yeldarb wrote:
       | Is the app available on the App Store?
        
         | narner wrote:
         | Not at the moment! Just an open-source demo for now; but I
         | think this could be a very cool app for whenever the Apple
         | glasses get released...
        
       | j-sizz wrote:
       | pretty awesome - I wonder if the algo could be used to teach
       | people how to sign the alphabet - new twist on machine "learning"
        
         | narner wrote:
         | You could probably do that!
        
       | senkora wrote:
       | Neat! I would qualify that this is an ASL fingerspelling
       | classifier, rather than a general classifier for the ASL
       | language.
        
       | rememberlenny wrote:
       | Very cool project.
       | 
       | I love these applications of CV for accessibility for the blind.
       | This is exactly what technology is made for.
        
         | narner wrote:
         | Thanks Lenny! And yes, agreed. You should check out Oz Ramos'
         | work: https://handsfree.js.org/
        
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