Gesture Recognition Based on Multiscale Singular Value Entropy and Deep Belief Network

As an important research direction of human–computer interaction technology, gesture recognition is the key to realizing sign language translation. To improve the accuracy of gesture recognition, a new gesture recognition method based on four channel surface electromyography (sEMG) signals is proposed. First, the S-transform is applied to four channel sEMG signals to enhance the time-frequency detail characteristics of the signals. Then, multiscale singular value decomposition is applied to the multiple time-frequency matrix output of S-transform to obtain the time-frequency joint features with better robustness. The corresponding singular value permutation entropy is calculated as the eigenvalue to effectively reduce the dimension of multiple eigenvectors. The gesture features are used as input into the deep belief network for classification, and nine kinds of gestures are recognized with an average accuracy of 93.33%. Experimental results show that the multiscale singular value permutation entropy feature is especially suitable for the pattern classification of the deep belief network.