Identifying Gestures through Convolutional Neural Networks: An Innovative Methodology
P. Anbumani, L Arun, Arunkumar V, V. Anish, Gokula Hariharan N · 2024
Recognizing hand gestures holds significant importance in computer vision, influencing fields such as sign language interpretation, gaming, and human-computer interaction. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become a prominent solution for various computer vision tasks, including hand gesture recognition, our research diverges by proposing an alternative method. We introduce a novel approach to hand gesture recognition that employs a CNN architecture. Initial preprocessing enhances hand photo quality by refining borders and eliminating background noise. Following this, our CNN architecture, which includes multiple convolutional and fully connected layers, extracts unique features from hand images. Training on a substantial dataset and evaluating on a separate test set, our method surpasses alternative techniques in accuracy for hand gesture recognition. These results underscore the effectiveness of our approach and suggest its practical utility. Hand gestures, as a prevalent form of communication in modern society, hold significant potential for creating intuitive user interfaces across diverse applications. While previous approaches often struggled with reliable gesture classification across individuals, our proposed method, utilizing four CNNs, achieves real-time recognition of hand gestures. Achieving an average accuracy of 98.76% on a dataset covering nine hand motions, our CNN-based approach demonstrates promising results for real-world applications.