A Wearable Hand Gesture Recognition Device Based On Acoustic Measurements At Wrist

Nabeel Siddiqui, Rosa H. M. Chan*

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review

33 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

This paper investigates hand gesture recognition from acoustic measurements at wrist for the development of a low-cost wearable human-computer interaction (HCI) device. A prototype with 5 microphone sensors on human wrist is benchmarked in hand gesture recognition performance by identifying 36 gestures in American Sign Language (ASL). Three subjects were recruited to perform over 20 trials for each set of hand gestures, including 26 ASL alphabets and 10 ASL numbers. Ten features were extracted from the signal recorded by each sensor. Support Vector Machine (SVM), Decision Tree (DT), K-Nearest Neighbors (kNN), and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) were compared in classification performance. Among which, LDA offered the highest average classification accuracy above 80%. Based on these preliminary results, our proposed technique has exhibited a promising means for developing a low-cost HCI.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS)
PublisherIEEE
Pages4443-4446
ISBN (Print)9781509028092
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2017
Event39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2017 - International Convention Center, Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 11 Jul 201715 Jul 2017
https://embc.embs.org/2017/
https://embs.papercept.net/conferences/conferences/EMBC17/program/EMBC17_ContentListWeb_3.html

Publication series

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ISSN (Print)1557-170X

Conference

Conference39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2017
Abbreviated titleEMBC' 17
PlaceKorea, Republic of
CityJeju Island
Period11/07/1715/07/17
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