Maria Clara Santos
🔬 ResearchAdded June 2026

Real-Time Filipino Sign Language Recognition Using MediaPipe

Undergraduate research paper (2nd author). We trained a lightweight gesture-recognition model on 4,500 samples of 30 common FSL signs, achieving 91.2% accuracy on a laptop webcam with no GPU. Presented at the 2025 PUP College of Computing Research Colloquium.

💭 Reflection

My first taste of real research. I learned to read papers properly, to be honest about our limitations section, and that collecting good data is 80% of the work.

Skills demonstrated

  • Python
  • TensorFlow
  • MediaPipe
  • Data Collection
  • Academic Writing

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