Abstract: Sign language recognition is an important problem of human-machine interaction. With the development of artificial intelligence, many machine learning and deep learning methods have been applied to sign language recognition tasks. Aiming at the problem of structure complexity of sign language recognition model, a lightweight long short-term memory-spiking neural network (LSTM-SNN) model for sign language recognition was designed. Firstly, adaptive spiking coding was proposed, which converted sign language signals into spiking signals. Then, the spiking signals were input into the improved leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) model to conduct information transmission in a clock-driven way to complete the training of the network. Experiments on 101 types of sign language datasets were conducted, and the accuracy of the model reached 95.37%, showing that the proposed model is superior to other deep learning and machine learning models.
Keywords: deep learning; pattern recognition; long short-term memory (LSTM); spiking neural network (SNN); sign language recognition