A novel convolutional neural network for gesture recognition

Gesture recognition, as an important means of human-computer interaction, can achieve more natural and flexible human-computer interaction, so it has been widely concerned by researchers in the field of computer vision. At present, most gesture recognition algorithms are based on monocular visual images and recognize the apparent features of hands. Most gesture image segmentation methods are carried out in color space according to skin color information. These methods are highly susceptible to interference from the external environment, such as lighting, background, etc. Convolutional neural network has the advantages of strong anti-interference and outstanding self-organization and self-learning ability. Therefore, based on the principle of convolutional neural network, a novel deep convolutional neural network dedicated to gesture recognition was designed in this paper. This network combines skin color information with finger position information for gesture recognition. Experimental results showed that the algorithm based on fingertip position information has better performance than the algorithm based solely on skin color information. Moreover, the network has simple structure and few parameters. Compared with VGG16 and other classical networks, the recognition accuracy is basically the same under the premise of fewer parameters and structural layers, and the recognition effect is better than other classical networks.