CASTER: A Computer-Vision-Assisted Wireless Channel Simulator for Gesture Recognition

In this paper, a computer-vision-assisted simulation method is proposed to address the issue of training dataset acquisition for wireless hand gesture recognition. In the existing literature, in order to classify gestures via the wireless channel estimation, massive training samples should be measured in a consistent environment, consuming significant efforts. In the proposed CASTER simulator, however, the training dataset can be simulated via existing videos. Particularly, in the channel simulation, a gesture is represented by a sequence of snapshots, and the channel impulse response of each snapshot is calculated via tracing the rays scattered off a primitive-based hand model. Moreover, CASTER simulator relies on the existing video clips to extract the motion data of gestures. Thus, the massive measurements of wireless channel can be eliminated. The experiments first demonstrate an 83.0% average recognition accuracy of simulation-to-reality inference in recognizing 5 categories of gestures. Moreover, this accuracy can be boosted to 96.5% via the method of transfer learning.