International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vol 13, No 6: December 2023

Unobtrusive hand gesture recognition using ultra-wide band radar and deep learning

Korti, Djazila Souhila (Unknown)
Slimane, Zohra (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Dec 2023

Abstract

Hand function after stroke injuries is not regained rapidly and requires physical rehabilitation for at least 6 months. Due to the heavy burden on the healthcare system, assisted rehabilitation is prescribed for a limited time, whereas so-called home rehabilitation is offered. It is therefore essential to develop robust solutions that facilitate monitoring while preserving the privacy of patients in a home-based setting. To meet these expectations, an unobtrusive solution based on radar sensing and deep learning is proposed. The multi-input multi-output convolutional eXtra trees (MIMO-CxT) is a new deep hybrid model used for hand gesture recognition (HGR) with impulse-radio ultra-wide band (IR-UWB) radars. It consists of a lightweight architecture based on a multi-input convolutional neural network (CNN) used in a hybrid configuration with extremely randomized trees (ETs). The model takes data from multiple sensors as input and processes them separately. The outputs of the CNN branches are concatenated before the prediction is made by the ETs. Moreover, the model uses depthwise separable convolution layers, which reduce computational cost and learning time while maintaining high performance. The model is evaluated on a publicly available dataset of gestures collected by three IR-UWB radars and achieved an average accuracy of 98.86%.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJECE

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Description

International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE, ISSN: 2088-8708, a SCOPUS indexed Journal, SNIP: 1.001; SJR: 0.296; CiteScore: 0.99; SJR & CiteScore Q2 on both of the Electrical & Electronics Engineering, and Computer Science) is the official publication of the Institute of ...