Ensemble learning with DDA loss for managing inter and intra class variation in hand gesture recognition
摘要
Dynamic hand gesture recognition has gained significant attention in computer vision due to its critical role in human-computer interaction, automation, and related fields. A key challenge in this domain is the substantial inter-class and intra-class variation inherent in gesture execution. To address this, we propose a robust ensemble-based model that mitigates such variability using a novel loss function termed Discriminant Distribution-Agnostic Loss (DDA Loss). Our ensemble incorporates three diverse deep learning architectures-DenseNet121, InceptionV3, and VGG16-each independently extracting feature vectors from skeleton trajectory representations of hand gestures. These features are fused and optimized using the DDA loss, which combines center loss with a distribution-agnostic constraint to enhance class separability without assumptions on data distribution. The training is performed using the Adam optimizer. The proposed model achieved an accuracy of