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Alok Yadav¹, Kitsuchart Pasupa¹, Chu Kiong Loo²

¹School of Information Technology, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, 10520, Thailand.

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Echo State Networks (ESNs) significantly improve continuous gesture recognition on smartphones. These machine learning models offer faster training and better performance than Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks for enhanced human-computer interaction.

Keywords:

Behaviour space analysis Continuous gesture recognition Echo state networks

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Signal Processing

Background:

Continuous gesture recognition enhances human-computer interaction by interpreting human movement captured by smartphone Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs).
Echo State Networks (ESNs) are recurrent neural networks well-suited for time series prediction due to their ability to generate complex nonlinear dynamics.
The application of ESNs for gesture recognition remains underexplored despite their potential for capturing temporal dependencies in movement data.

Purpose of the Study:

To enhance the efficacy of ESN models for continuous gesture recognition on mobile devices.
To investigate the impact of diverse model structures, hyperparameter tuning, and training approaches on ESN performance.
To evaluate ESNs under varying data availability scenarios using Leave-one-out Cross-validation (LOOCV).

Main Methods:

Explored diverse ESN model structures and optimized hyperparameters.
Implemented three training schemes using the LOOCV protocol to simulate different data availability levels.
Conducted behavior space analysis using memory capacity, Kernel Rank, and Generalization Rank to assess model properties.

Main Results:

Achieved high performance scores across different data availability scenarios (0.89, 0.96, 0.99) using LOOCV.
Outperformed Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) models (0.87 score) in gesture recognition accuracy.
Demonstrated significantly lower training times for ESNs (approx. 13 seconds) compared to LSTMs (63 seconds).

Conclusions:

Optimized ESN models achieve high performance in continuous gesture recognition on mobile devices, even with limited data.
ESNs offer a practical and efficient alternative to LSTMs for gesture recognition tasks, enhancing human-computer interaction.
The findings underscore the potential of ESNs for real-world applications requiring robust and fast gesture interpretation.