This was my first team project as a Computer Science student. We built a real-time sign language detection system that uses a webcam to capture hand gestures and classify them into basic sign-language categories.

Tech Stack we used #

• Python
• OpenCV
• MediaPipe
• scikit-learn

The project was structured into four seperate python programs:

1. collect_imgs.py – Capture 100 images per gesture class
2. create_dataset.py – Label and organize the dataset
3. train_classifier.py – Extract features and train a simple ML model
4. inference_classifier.py – Perform live classification via webcam

The system can classify around 10 different gestures in real time and gave me an amazing introduction into both machine learning and collaborating as a team. It can be found here