Applied Sciences, Vol. 13, Pages 12204: SDViT: Stacking of Distilled Vision Transformers for Hand Gesture Recognition

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Applied Sciences, Vol. 13, Pages 12204: SDViT: Stacking of Distilled Vision Transformers for Hand Gesture Recognition

Applied Sciences doi: 10.3390/app132212204

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

Hand gesture recognition (HGR) is a rapidly evolving field with the potential to revolutionize human–computer interactions by enabling machines to interpret and understand human gestures for intuitive communication and control. However, HGR faces challenges such as the high similarity of hand gestures, real-time performance, and model generalization. To address these challenges, this paper proposes the stacking of distilled vision transformers, referred to as SDViT, for hand gesture recognition. An initially pretrained vision transformer (ViT) featuring a self-attention mechanism is introduced to effectively capture intricate connections among image patches, thereby enhancing its capability to handle the challenge of high similarity between hand gestures. Subsequently, knowledge distillation is proposed to compress the ViT model and improve model generalization. Multiple distilled ViTs are then stacked to achieve higher predictive performance and reduce overfitting. The proposed SDViT model achieves a promising performance on three benchmark datasets for hand gesture recognition: the American Sign Language (ASL) dataset, the ASL with digits dataset, and the National University of Singapore (NUS) hand gesture dataset. The accuracies achieved on these datasets are 100.00%, 99.60%, and 100.00%, respectively.

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