Construct 3D Hand Skeleton with Commercial WiFi

Sijie Ji, Xuanye Zhang, Yuanqing Zheng, Mo Li

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Abstract

This paper presents HandFi, which constructs hand skeletons with practical WiFi devices. Unlike previous WiFi hand sensing systems that primarily employ predefined gestures for pattern matching, by constructing the hand skeleton, HandFi can enable a variety of downstream WiFi-based hand sensing applications in gaming, healthcare, and smart homes. Deriving the skeleton from WiFi signals is challenging, especially because the palm is a dominant reflector compared with fingers. HandFi develops a novel multi-task learning neural network with a series of customized loss functions to capture the low-level hand information from WiFi signals. During offline training, HandFi takes raw WiFi signals as input and uses the leap motion to provide supervision. During online use, only with commercial WiFi, HandFi is capable of producing 2D hand masks as well as 3D hand poses. We demonstrate that HandFi can serve as a foundation model to enable developers to build various applications such as finger tracking and sign language recognition, and outperform existing WiFi-based solutions. Artifacts can be found: https://github.com/SIJIEJI/HandFi

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSenSys 2023 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensors Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages322-334
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9798400704147
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Nov 2023
Event21st ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensors Systems, SenSys 2023 - Istanbul, Turkey
Duration: 13 Nov 202315 Nov 2023

Publication series

NameSenSys 2023 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensors Systems

Conference

Conference21st ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensors Systems, SenSys 2023
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityIstanbul
Period13/11/2315/11/23

Keywords

  • 3D hand pose
  • gesture recognition
  • multi-task learning
  • wireless sensing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Control and Systems Engineering

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