CNN-based Hand Gesture Recognition for Contactless Elevator Button Control

Recently, with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, various quarantine measures have been implemented to reduce the spread of the virus. As a part of efforts, the preference for touchless technology has been emerging. In this paper, we propose a touchless elevator control system using CNN-based hand gesture recognition. Experimental results show that the hand recognition AP and FPS on the Jetson TX2 board are 81.87% and 11.8FPS, respectively. We demonstrate that an elevator model could be controlled by virtual elevator buttons utilizing CNN-based hand gesture recognition. The proposed method can be applied to commercial elevators as an approach to prevent the spread of viruses from elevator buttons.