Static Hand Gesture Recognition Using Capacitive Sensing and Machine Learning

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dc.citation.issue7
dc.citation.volume23
dc.contributor.authorNoble F
dc.contributor.authorXu M
dc.contributor.authorAlam F
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-28T02:00:18Z
dc.date.available2023-03-24
dc.date.available2023-03-28T02:00:18Z
dc.date.issued2023-03-24
dc.description.abstractAutomated hand gesture recognition is a key enabler of Human-to-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) and smart living. This paper reports the development and testing of a static hand gesture recognition system using capacitive sensing. Our system consists of a 6×18 array of capacitive sensors that captured five gestures-Palm, Fist, Middle, OK, and Index-of five participants to create a dataset of gesture images. The dataset was used to train Decision Tree, Naïve Bayes, Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) neural network, and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) classifiers. Each classifier was trained five times; each time, the classifier was trained using four different participants' gestures and tested with one different participant's gestures. The MLP classifier performed the best, achieving an average accuracy of 96.87% and an average F1 score of 92.16%. This demonstrates that the proposed system can accurately recognize hand gestures and that capacitive sensing is a viable method for implementing a non-contact, static hand gesture recognition system.
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dc.identifier.citationSensors, 2023, 23 (7)
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/s23073419
dc.identifier.elements-id460562
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn1424-8220
dc.publisherMDPI AG
dc.relation.isPartOfSensors
dc.relation.urihttps://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/7/3419
dc.rights© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.anzsrc0301 Analytical Chemistry
dc.subject.anzsrc0805 Distributed Computing
dc.subject.anzsrc0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
dc.subject.anzsrc0502 Environmental Science and Management
dc.subject.anzsrc0602 Ecology
dc.titleStatic Hand Gesture Recognition Using Capacitive Sensing and Machine Learning
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Sciences
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Sciences/School of Food and Advanced Technology
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