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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2023

HGR-ViT: Hand Gesture Recognition with Vision Transformer.

Chun Keat Tan, Kian Ming Lim, Roy Kwang Yang Chang, Chin Poo Lee, Ali Alqahtani

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Chun Keat TanFaculty of Information Science and Technology, Multimedia University, Jalan Ayer Keroh Lama, Melaka 75450, Malaysia.
Kian Ming LimFaculty of Information Science and Technology, Multimedia University, Jalan Ayer Keroh Lama, Melaka 75450, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0003-1929-7978
Roy Kwang Yang ChangFaculty of Information Science and Technology, Multimedia University, Jalan Ayer Keroh Lama, Melaka 75450, Malaysia.
Chin Poo LeeFaculty of Information Science and Technology, Multimedia University, Jalan Ayer Keroh Lama, Melaka 75450, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0003-3679-8977
Ali AlqahtaniDepartment of Computer Science, King Khalid University, Abha 61421, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-1052-2657
Multimedia University · MYKing Khalid University · SA

Funding

King Khalid University RGP2/332/44Telekom Malaysia Berhad (Malaysia) RDTC/221045
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hand gesture recognition (HGR) is a crucial area of research that enhances communication by overcoming language barriers and facilitating human-computer interaction. Although previous works in HGR have employed deep neural networks, they fail to encode the orientation and position of the hand in the image. To address this issue, this paper proposes HGR-ViT, a Vision Transformer (ViT) model with an attention mechanism for hand gesture recognition. Given a hand gesture image, it is first split into fixed size patches. Positional embedding is added to these embeddings to form learnable vectors that capture the positional information of the hand patches. The resulting sequence of vectors are then served as the input to a standard Transformer encoder to obtain the hand gesture representation. A multilayer perceptron head is added to the output of the encoder to classify the hand gesture to the correct class. The proposed HGR-ViT obtains an accuracy of 99.98%, 99.36% and 99.85% for the American Sign Language (ASL) dataset, ASL with Digits dataset, and National University of Singapore (NUS) hand gesture dataset, respectively.

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GesturesPattern Recognition, AutomatedHandHumansNeural Networks, ComputerSign LanguageUpper Extremityattentionhand gesture recognitionsign language recognitionvision transformerViT

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PMID37420722
PMCPMC10303839
OpenAlexW4380683077

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