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A Deep Learning-based Multimodal Depth-Aware Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition System
Hasan Mahmud, Mashrur M. Morshed, Md. Kamrul Hasan
The dynamic hand gesture recognition task has seen studies on various unimodal and multimodal methods. Previously, researchers have explored depth and 2D-skeleton-based multimodal fusion CRNNs (Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks) but have had limitations in getting expected recognition results. In this paper, we revisit this approach to hand gesture recognition and suggest several improvements. We observe that raw depth images possess low contrast in the hand regions of interest (ROI). They do not highlight important fine details, such as finger orientation, overlap between the finger and palm, or overlap between multiple fingers. We thus propose quantizing the depth values into several discrete regions, to create a higher contrast between several key parts of the hand. In addition, we suggest several ways to tackle the high variance problem in existing multimodal fusion CRNN architectures. We evaluate our method on two benchmarks: the DHG-14/28 dataset and the SHREC'17 track dataset. Our approach shows a significant improvement in accuracy and parameter efficiency over previous similar multimodal methods, with a comparable result to the state-of-the-art.
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