Technique for Compressing Regions of Interest in Sign Language Videos

The article presents a technique that allows reducing the size of videos composed of sign language frames, by extracting the region that performs the movement, eliminating the bidirectional frames. The size reduction is over 70% and can be stored in Matlab formats or traditional video format. The use of sign language is very important because it allows the communication of people with hearing problems, as well as the signaling of messages in all areas of industry, commerce and education. And it is the basis for incorporation into sources of employment and the reduction of limited risk areas in companies for personnel with this disability.