Application research of gesture recognition based on lightweight neural network

Abstract

With the promotion of smart city and other technologies, the application of embedded vision detection equipment is becoming more and more popular, among which gesture recognition is an important application of embedded vision detection equipment. At present, gesture recognition technology on embedded visual detection equipment is mostly implemented by calling API in domestic and foreign researches and products. But this method needs the support of stable communication network and has certain delay problem. To solve the above problems, this paper proposes a lightweight neural network model that can be deployed on embedded devices, which can realize local gesture recognition on embedded terminals without network remote transmission. The network builds a training framework on PyTorch and uses a homemade dataset for training, then lightens the network and finally deploys on raspberry PI for gesture recognition. Experimental results show that this network can run at a higher rate in raspberry PI 4B (4GB), and the model size is greatly reduced. The final recognition effect is good, and it has high practical value.