Abstract
In this article, we demonstrate the ability to recognize hand gestures in a noncontact wireless fashion using only incoherent light signals reflected from a human subject. Fundamentally distinguished from radar, lidar, and camera-based sensing systems, this sensing modality uses only a low-cost light source (e.g., LED) and a sensor (e.g., photodetector). The lightwave-based gesture recognition system identifies different gestures from the variations in light intensity reflected from the subject's hand within a short (20-35 cm) range. As users perform different gestures, scattered light forms unique, statistically repeatable, time-domain signatures. These signatures can be learned by repeated sampling to obtain the training model against which unknown gesture signals are tested and categorized. These time-domain variations of the lightwave signals reflected from hand are denoised, standardized, and then classified by using machine learning classification tools such as $K$-nearest neighbors and support vector machine. Performance evaluations have been conducted with eight gestures, five subjects, different distances and lighting conditions, and visible and infrared light sources. The results demonstrate the best hand gesture recognition performance of infrared sensing at 20 cm with an average of 96% accuracy. The developed gesture recognition system is low-cost, effective, and noncontact technology for numerous human-computer interaction applications.
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