About Us
We're a group of students who are passionate about promoting inclusive communication for all. We firmly believe that communication is a fundamental human right, and helping people to communicate is our way of giving back to the community.
Our mission is to create a world where everyone can effectively and effortlessly communicate, regardless of their hearing abilities. By recognizing the importance of American Sign Language and its role in facilitating communication for the deaf community, we have taken our first step towards making the world a more accessible place.
We aim to take the first steps in ASL recognition by creating a model that can recognize the fundamental building blocks of language: the alphabet. We hope that our model can be used as a stepping stone for future research in ASL recognition, and that it can be used to help the deaf community communicate more effectively with their devices and others.
Our Team
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Hi I'm Hazel, full name Haizhen Zhou. I am studying computer science in WA while also doing competitive swimming in my free time. I got interested in ML and wanted to learn more!
My name is Allen Feng, and I'm currently a rising senior at Science Hill High School in Tennessee. I enjoy playing music, video games, and coding.
I'm Tristan, and I have a passion for computer science and software engineering. I like to play the piano and collaborate on projects. I worked on the frontend along with Meredith.
Hello, I'm Meredith Lo. I am a rising junior at Great Oak High School and I like to spend my time drawing, making games, and baking. I worked on the frontend with Tristan.
Hello, my name is Stephen Wasylenko. I am in the class of 2024 in John H. Glenn High School on Long Island. I enjoy developing games with C++, content creation, and keeping up with current news and politics. I hope to dual major in computer software and hardware development.
Hi, my name is Diego Sesmas Estrada. I'm going to be a junior at Early College High School in Costa Mesa, CA. My current goal is to major in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or some other more specific field. I spend most of my free time learning and practicing software development, and I prefer to use Rust, Kotlin, or TypeScript in my projects depending on the platform (native, JVM, and web, respectively).
Evaluation
We ran our model on our 26-class ASL dataset with
100 epochs at resolution 640x640 with a pretrained yolov8n base model,
achieving mAP50 scores > 95%.
(You can filter between loss or accuracy by clicking on the category buttons.)