Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal (Jul 2013)

User-independent accelerometer-based gesture recognition for mobile devices

  • Eduardo METOLA,
  • José Ramón CASAR,
  • Ana María BERNARDOS,
  • Paula TARRÍO,
  • Xian WANG

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 3
pp. 11 – 25

Abstract

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Many mobile devices embed nowadays inertial sensors. This enables new forms of human-computer interaction through the use of gestures (movements performed with the mobile device) as a way of communication. This paper presents an accelerometer-based gesture recognition system for mobile devices which is able to recognize a collection of 10 different hand gestures. The system was conceived to be light and to operate in a user-independent manner in real time. The recognition system was implemented in a smart phone and evaluated through a collection of user tests, which showed a recognition accuracy similar to other state-of-the art techniques and a lower computational complexity. The system was also used to build a human-robot interface that enables controlling a wheeled robot with the gestures made with the mobile phone

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