Wireless Hand Gesture Recognition Based on Continuous-Wave Doppler Radar Sensors

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 4012-4020

  Fan, Tenglong ^a   Ma, Chao ^a   Gu, Zhitao ^a   Lv, Qinyi ^a   Chen, Jialong ^a   Ye, Dexin ^a   Huangfu, Jiangtao ^a   Sun, Yongzhi ^b   Li, Changzhi ^c   Ran, Lixin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Nanjing Electronic Equipment Institution   (China)

^c Texas Tech University   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler radar sensor; hand gesture recognition (HGR); linear motion imaging; mouse; subcarrier modulation

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DOPPLER RADAR; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PHASE SHIFT; RADAR; RADAR EQUIPMENT;

CONTINUOUS WAVE DOPPLER RADARS; COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS; DIRECT-CONVERSION ARCHITECTURE; DOPPLER RADAR SENSORS; HAND-GESTURE RECOGNITION; NON-CONTACT DETECTION; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; SUB-CARRIER MODULATIONS;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84992036449     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2016.2610427     Document Type: Article

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