Phuket, Thailand - 8 August 2026 WRFER International Conference
Winners of "Excellent Paper Award"
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Name
Moh Alif Hidayat Sofyan
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Affiliation
Department of Electronics Engineering, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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Country
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Paper Abstract
Communication accessibility for Indonesia’s deaf and hard-of-hearing community remains severely limited.
Currently, over 2.7 million individuals rely on the Indonesian Sign Language System (SIBI), yet they frequently encounter
communication barriers due to the lack of widely accessible translation tools. Existing solutions often depend on costly
wearable devices or camera-based systems restricted to static gesture recognition. To bridge this gap, this study proposes a
comprehensive SIBI recognition system that integrates Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) networks with
MediaPipe Holistic feature extraction. Deployed as a fully offline PyQt5 desktop application, the system ensures privacy,
low latency, and independence from internet connectivity. A custom dataset comprising 10 distinct gesture classes was
collected and processed into 1,662-dimensional landmark vectors over 30-frame sequences. The underlying model is a three-
layer stacked Bi-LSTM configured with L2 regularization and an Adam optimizer. Evaluation results demonstrated a robust
validation accuracy of 97.00% and an F1-score of 0.97, with 9 out of 10 gesture classes achieving a 100% real-time
recognition success rate. Furthermore, the application exhibited excellent resource efficiency, running at approximately 26
FPS, consuming only ~30% CPU and ~280 MB RAM, with an end-to-end latency of ~230 ms. A stress test confirming
stable operation for up to 50 minutes validates the system's viability as a practical, offline assistive technology tool for
educational and public settings.
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Conference Details
Phuket, Thailand - 8 August 2026 WRFER International Conference