Computer Science Student Creates An AI-Based Model That Translates Sign Language To English! Inspired by her mother's challenge to apply her engineering studies effectively, Priyanjali Gupta, a third-year computer science student at the Vellore Institute of Technology, embarked on a project in February 2021. Leveraging the TensorFlow Object Detection API and transfer learning with ssd_mobilenet, she developed a model for American Sign Language (ASL) recognition. Collecting data through a webcam,