Wearable air-writing recognition system employing dynamic time warping

Yuqi Luo, Jiang Liu, Shigeru Shimamoto

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Abstract

Gesture recognition has been a popular research field under the trend of IoT and intelligent devices. Air-writing is the most challenging and crucial topic in the gesture recognition field. In this paper, we propose a wearable air-writing system that makes users can write the English alphabet in the three-dimensional space without any write rules. The proposed system is based on the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), and it uses dynamic time warping (DTW) as the main recognition algorithm. In addition, to improve the recognition accuracy and take a better advantage of the DTW algorithm, we present an adjustment system that gives some new optimization methods to the application of IMU and DTW. In the experiment, the accuracy of recognition is 84.6% for the uppercase alphabet (from 'A' to 'Z') in user-dependent case. And we also confirmed that the recognition method only based on the DTW algorithm is one kind of user-dependent methods, which means this method is heavily dependent on personalization.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2021 IEEE 18th Annual Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728197944
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Jan 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event18th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2021 - Virtual, Las Vegas, United States
Duration: 9 Jan 202113 Jan 2021

Publication series

Name2021 IEEE 18th Annual Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2021

Conference

Conference18th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2021
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Las Vegas
Period9/01/2113/01/21

Keywords

  • Air-writing
  • Dynamic time warping
  • Gesture recognition
  • Human computer interaction
  • IMU
  • Wearable devices

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