AFERSM-Net: Joint Network for Gesture Recognition and Location Classification

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Keywords:

Gesture recognition, Location classification, Noise reduction, Feature extraction, Deep learning

Abstract

With the widespread deployment of wireless communication systems and smart devices, gesture recognition and indoor location classification technologies based on WiFi wireless devices are increasingly used. Its technical principle is to identify human activities and locations by extracting gesture and location features from WiFi channel state information (CSI). However, the signal is susceptible to interference from the environment during CSI data acquisition to produce multipath effect noise, and the amplitude change with the change of location often affects the extraction and recognition of gesture features. To address these problems, Auxiliary Feature Extraction based Residual Shrinkage Multi-tasking Network (AFERSM-Net) is proposed for gesture recognition and position classification of one-dimensional multivariate time series. AFERSM-Net is a hybrid architecture that combines CNN for spatial feature extraction and LSTM networks for capturing temporal dependencies. Firstly, a reasonable threshold is set adaptively by the shrinkage module to dynamically identify and eliminate the transformed environmental noise. Secondly, the feature extraction module is used to focus on and extract location-independent gesture features to reduce the influence of location-independent features. Finally, the gesture features extracted by the feature extraction module are fused with the shared features of the residual shrinkage multi-tasking network as an aid. Its module fusion is mainly used to improve the accuracy of gesture recognition and solve the problem of insufficient model generalization ability. We evaluated this network on a dual-labeled gesture and location dataset, an the gesture recognition accuracy was 97.84% and the location classification accuracy was 98.92%, which outperformed other advanced network frameworks.

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Author Biographies

Xu Lu, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Intellectual Property and Big Data, and Pazhou Lab, Guangzhou, China

Xu Lu is a Professor in the School of Computer Science, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University,China. He received the B.S. degrees from Nanchang University, Jiangxi, China, in 2006, and the M.E. and Ph.D. degree from the Guangdong University of Technology, Guangdong, China, in 2009 and 2015, respectively. His research interests include artificial intelligence and smart system.

Zexiao Cai, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangdong, China

Zexiao Cai is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Electronic Information at the Interdisciplinary Research Institute,Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University.His main research areas include healthcare and artificial intelligence.

Xiongwei Huang, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangdong, China

Xiongwei Huang is a university faculty member in the Department of Electronic Information Engineering at Guangzhou Institute of Technology. He graduated from Guangdong Technical Normal University in 2023 with a master’s degree in electronic information, and his interested research interests are sensor networks and deep learning.

Cheng Zhou, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangdong, China

Cheng Zhou is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Systems Engineering at the School of Computer Science, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University. His main research directions include the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence.

Jun Liu, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangdong, China

Jun Liu received the Ph.D degree in control science and engineering in 2015 from Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. He is currently working as a associate professor in Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou, China. His research interests mainly include sense and localization, intelligent mobile robot, IIoTs, collaborative sense and data optimization.

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Published

2025-05-14

How to Cite

Lu, X., Cai, Z., Huang, X., Zhou, C., & Liu, J. (2025). AFERSM-Net: Joint Network for Gesture Recognition and Location Classification. IEEE Latin America Transactions, 23(6), 462–471. Retrieved from https://latamt.ieeer9.org/index.php/transactions/article/view/9515