Opisthenar: Hand Poses and Finger Tapping Recognition by Observing Back of Hand Using Embedded Wrist Camera

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We introduce a vision-based technique to recognize static hand poses and dynamic fnger tapping gestures. Our approach employs a camera on the wrist, with a view of the opisthenar (back of the hand) area. We envisage such cameras being included in a wrist-worn device such as a smartwatch, ftness tracker or wristband. Indeed, selected off-the-shelf smartwatches now incorporate a built-in camera on the side for photography purposes. However, in this confguration, the fngers are occluded from the view of the camera. The oblique angle and placement of the camera make typical vision-based techniques diffcult to adopt. Our alternative approach observes small movements and changes in the shape, tendons, skin and bones on the opisthenar area. We train deep neural networks to recognize both hand poses and dynamic fnger tapping gestures. While this is a challenging confguration for sensing, we tested the recognition with a real-time user test and achieved a high recognition rate of 89.4% (static poses) and 67.5% (dynamic gestures). Our results further demonstrate that our approach can generalize across sessions and to new users. Namely, users can remove and replace the wrist-worn device while new users can employ a previously trained system, to a certain degree. We conclude by demonstrating three applications and suggest future avenues of work based on sensing the back of the hand.
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ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
Issue Date
2019-10
Language
English
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32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), pp.963 - 971

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10.1145/3332165.3347867
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http://hdl.handle.net/10203/274969
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RIMS Conference Papers
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