Static gesture recognition based on thermal imaging sensors
摘要
The applicability of gesture recognition technology in a variety of scenarios within the field of human–computer interaction has been demonstrated due to the flexibility and non-contact nature of the technology. In particular, thermal imaging technology is not limited by lighting conditions, which is effectively reduces risk by capturing only thermal radiation rather than detailed visual features. In this study, a low-resolution 32 × 24 pixels end-to-end embedded infrared thermal image camera gesture recognition system is developed. A thermal image gesture dataset of 4500 images is constructed to train and evaluate the system. This study investigates the effects of incorporating the spatial transformer network (STN) attention mechanism on improving gesture recognition accuracy. Thus, a new method combines lightweight convolutional neural networks and STN is proposed. Additionally, the proposed method achieves a recognition accuracy of 98.5% and inference time of only 59 ms per frame on embedded devices when tested on a self-made infrared thermal image sign language gesture dataset, outperforming mainstream lightweight models.