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Flexible Non-contact Capacitive Sensing for Hand Gesture Recognition

  • Peking University
  • Beijing Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Rehabilitation Engineering

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Abstract

Hand gesture recognition has become a popular research topic of human machine interface (HMI), and effective wearable sensor is an important component in the loop of hand gesture recognition system. In this paper, we introduce a flexible non-contact capacitive wristband that can be used to detect both wrist and finger gestures. To demonstrate the effectiveness and performance of the designed prototype, nine wrist gestures and ten finger gestures were selected. Five subjects participated in the experiment. To validate the importance of considering spacial relationship among channels, especially when discriminating intricate finger gestures, CNN was implemented and compared with LDA. In the wrist gesture recognition task, LDA achieved the average accuracy of 98.38%, and CNN achieved the average accuracy of 99.81%. In the finger gesture recognition task, LDA achieved the average accuracy of 90.04%, and CNN achieved the average accuracy of 95.54%. This study suggested that the designed flexible non-contact capacitive wristband could be used as an alternative for hand gesture recognition, and considering spacial relationship among channels on different measuring location yields better recognition result.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Robotics and Applications - 14th International Conference, ICIRA 2021, Proceedings
EditorsXin-Jun Liu, Zhenguo Nie, Jingjun Yu, Fugui Xie, Rui Song
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages611-621
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783030890940
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event14th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2021 - Yantai, China
Duration: 22 Oct 202125 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13013 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityYantai
Period22/10/2125/10/21

Keywords

  • Capacitive sensing
  • Hand gesture recognition
  • Pattern recognition

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