Recognizing Word Gesture in Sign System for Indonesian Language (SIBI) Sentences Using DeepCNN and BiLSTM

Abstract

SIBI is a sign language that is officially used in Indonesia. The use of SIBI is often found to be a problem because of the many gestures that have to be remembered. This study aims to recognize SIBI gestures by extracting hand and facial features which are then classified using Bidirectional Long ShortTerm Memory (BiLSTM). The feature extraction used in this research is Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DeepCNN) such as ResNet50 and MobileNetV2, where both models are used as a comparison. This study also compares the performance and computational time between the two models which is expected to be applied to smartphones later, where both models can now be implemented on smartphones. The results showed that the use of ResNet50-BiLSTM model have better performance than MobileNetV2-BiLSTM which is 99.89%. However, if it will be applied to mobile architecture, MobileNetV2-BiLSTM is superior because it has a faster computational time with a performance that is not significantly different when compared to ResNet50-BiLSTM.