scholarly journals Continuous Finger Gesture Recognition Based on Flex Sensors

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (18) ◽  
pp. 3986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Chieh Chuang ◽  
Wen-Jyi Hwang ◽  
Tsung-Ming Tai ◽  
De-Rong Huang ◽  
Yun-Jie Jhang

The goal of this work is to present a novel continuous finger gesture recognition system based on flex sensors. The system is able to carry out accurate recognition of a sequence of gestures. Wireless smart gloves equipped with flex sensors were implemented for the collection of the training and testing sets. Given the sensory data acquired from the smart gloves, the gated recurrent unit (GRU) algorithm was then adopted for gesture spotting. During the training process for the GRU, the movements associated with different fingers and the transitions between two successive gestures were taken into consideration. On the basis of the gesture spotting results, the maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation was carried out for the final gesture classification. Because of the effectiveness of the proposed spotting scheme, accurate gesture recognition was achieved even for complicated transitions between successive gestures. From the experimental results, it can be observed that the proposed system is an effective alternative for robust recognition of a sequence of finger gestures.

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1933
Author(s):  
Hiroomi Hikawa ◽  
Yuta Ichikawa ◽  
Hidetaka Ito ◽  
Yutaka Maeda

In this paper, a real-time dynamic hand gesture recognition system with gesture spotting function is proposed. In the proposed system, input video frames are converted to feature vectors, and they are used to form a posture sequence vector that represents the input gesture. Then, gesture identification and gesture spotting are carried out in the self-organizing map (SOM)-Hebb classifier. The gesture spotting function detects the end of the gesture by using the vector distance between the posture sequence vector and the winner neuron’s weight vector. The proposed gesture recognition method was tested by simulation and real-time gesture recognition experiment. Results revealed that the system could recognize nine types of gesture with an accuracy of 96.6%, and it successfully outputted the recognition result at the end of gesture using the spotting result.


2015 ◽  
Vol 06 (02) ◽  
pp. 1550002
Author(s):  
Pichid Kittisuwan

The need for efficient image denoising methods has grown with the massive production of digital images and movies of all kinds. The distortion of images by additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) is common during its processing and transmission. This paper is concerned with dual-tree complex wavelet-based image denoising using Bayesian techniques. Indeed, one of the cruxes of the Bayesian image denoising algorithms is to estimate the local variance of the image. Here, we employ maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation to calculate local observed variance with Maxwell density prior for local observed variance and Gaussian distribution for noisy wavelet coefficients. Evidently, our selection of prior distribution is motivated by analytical and computational tractability. The experimental results show that the proposed method yields good denoising results.


Author(s):  
Gayathri. R ◽  
K. Sheela Sobana Rani ◽  
R. Lavanya

Silent speakers face a lot of problems when it comes to communicate their thoughts and views. Furthermore, only few people know the sign language of these silent speakers. They tend to feel awkward to take part any exercises with the typical individuals. They require gesture based communication mediators for their interchanges. The solution to this problem is to provide them a better way to take their message across, “Smart Finger Gesture Recognition System for Silent Speakers” which has been proposed. Instead of using sign language, gesture recognition is done with the help of finger movements. The system consists of data glove, flex sensors, raspberry pi. The flex sensors are fitted on the data gloves and it is used to recognize the finger gestures. Then the ADC module is used to convert the analog values into digital form. After signal conversion, the value is given to Raspberry Pi 3, and it converts the signals into audio output as well as text format using software tool. The proposed framework limits correspondence boundary between moronic individuals and ordinary individuals. Therefore, the recognized finger gestures are conveyed into speech and text so that the normal people can easily communicate with dumb people.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 605-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirin Jalali ◽  
Arian Maleki

Abstract Consider the problem of estimating parameters $X^n \in \mathbb{R}^n $, from $m$ response variables $Y^m = AX^n+Z^m$, under the assumption that the distribution of $X^n$ is known. Lack of computationally feasible algorithms that employ generic prior distributions and provide a good estimate of $X^n$ has limited the set of distributions researchers use to model the data. To address this challenge, in this article, a new estimation scheme named quantized maximum a posteriori (Q-MAP) is proposed. The new method has the following properties: (i) In the noiseless setting, it has similarities to maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation. (ii) In the noiseless setting, when $X_1,\ldots,X_n$ are independent and identically distributed, asymptotically, as $n$ grows to infinity, its required sampling rate ($m/n$) for an almost zero-distortion recovery approaches the fundamental limits. (iii) It scales favorably with the dimensions of the problem and therefore is applicable to high-dimensional setups. (iv) The solution of the Q-MAP optimization can be found via a proposed iterative algorithm that is provably robust to error (noise) in response variables.


2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aubrey B. Poore ◽  
Benjamin J. Slocumb ◽  
Brian J. Suchomel ◽  
Fritz H. Obermeyer ◽  
Shawn M. Herman ◽  
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