Recognition of hand movements

using
wearable accelerometers

Jenner Feijoo
Ph. D Graciela
Biomedical Engineering
Yachay Tech Univerity
Wearable sensors
Hand movement recognition system
• Design
Hand movement recognition system
• Design
• Data collection
Hand movement recognition system
• Design
• Data collection
• Feature extraction and analysis
 Results and discusión
• Classification

AdaBoost: https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/adaboost-classifier-python
K-NN : https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/k-means-clustering-r
HMMs : https://www.digitalvidya.com/blog/inroduction-to-hidden-markov-models-using-python/
 Results and discusión
• Classification

AdaBoost: https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/adaboost-classifier-python
K-NN : https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/k-means-clustering-r
HMMs : https://www.digitalvidya.com/blog/inroduction-to-hidden-markov-models-using-python/
Results and discusión
• Classification
• Subject adaptation
Results and discusión
• Classification
• Subject adaptation
• Accelerometer configuration
Results and discusión
• Classification
• Subject adaptation
• Accelerometer configuration
• Generalization to real life studies

Scoop Lift to mouth

Unscrew cap Pour
Stir
Conclusion
• IADLs
• AdaBoost – over 86%
• Accelerometer
• Generalizability
Reference
• Krishnan, N. C., Juillard, C., Colbry, D., & Panchanathan,
S. (2009). Recognition of hand movements using wearable
accelerometers. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart
Environments, 1(2), 143-155. https://doi.org/10.3233/AIS-2009-0019