ntsrigaud/maestro-lstm-hybrid

two_stream_attn_v1_2layer_ld_cong_finetune_20260515T134706Z

A real-time hand gesture classifier trained on a Hybrid Jester+IPN gesture dataset (Jester dynamic classes + IPN pointing classes).

This model is part of the Maestro pipeline that enables touchless control of presentation and meeting software through hand gestures captured from a standard webcam using MediaPipe for landmark extraction.

Model Description

• Architecture: EnhancedTwoStreamLSTM (BiLSTM h=96×2, MHA 8 heads, proj=96, mean+max pool, MLP gate)
• Parameters: 1,208,554
• Input: (batch, 16, 147) — 16-frame sliding window at 30 FPS ≈ 533 ms
• Output: Softmax logits over 10 gesture classes
• Inference latency: < 1 ms per call (CPU, single sample)
• Feature schema: feature-schema-v1

Architecture

EnhancedTwoStreamLSTM splits the 147-dim feature vector into two parallel streams and processes them through a BiLSTM + self-attention + MLP-gate pipeline:

Input (B, T=32, 147)
    │
    ├─ Stream A — Pose/Shape (73 dims)
    │   Linear+LN+GELU → 96
    │   2-layer BiLSTM (h=96) → (B, T, 192)
    │   LayerNorm → Self-MHA (8 heads) + residual + post-LN
    │   mean+max pool → pool_LN → ctx_a (B, 192)
    │
    ├─ Stream B — Motion/Dynamics (74 dims)
    │   (identical structure) → ctx_b (B, 192)
    │
    ├─ MLP cross-stream gate
    │   gate_a = Sigmoid(
    │     Linear(96→192)(
    │       Tanh(Linear(192→96)(ctx_b))))
    │   ctx_a  = LN(ctx_a × gate_a + ctx_a)
    │   gate_b = Sigmoid(
    │     Linear(96→192)(
    │       Tanh(Linear(192→96)(ctx_a))))
    │   ctx_b  = LN(ctx_b × gate_b + ctx_b)
    │
    └─ cat(ctx_a, ctx_b) → (384,)
       LN → Linear(384→192) → GELU → Dropout → Linear(192→10)

Design rationale:

• BiLSTMs encode temporal order via their recurrent cell state — no positional encoding needed.
• Mean+Max pooling captures both sustained gesture shape (mean) and transient click events (max).
• The 2-layer MLP gate provides non-linear cross-modal recalibration at ~37 K params (vs ~263 K for full MHA cross-attention with a degenerate mean-pooled query).

Gesture Classes

Class	Description
fist	Closed fist (all fingers curled, thumb tucked)
swiping_right	Horizontal swipe from left to right
swiping_left	Horizontal swipe from right to left
swiping_down	Vertical swipe downward
swiping_up	Vertical swipe upward
zooming_in_full_hand	Pinch-open / spread fingers away from each other
zooming_out_full_hand	Pinch-close / bring fingers together
point_one	Single-finger pointing gesture (continuous laser-pointer control)
point_two	Two-finger pointing gesture (continuous annotation-pen control)
unknown	Background / transition / no gesture

Gesture Usage In Presentation System

Class	Mode	Command	Runtime handling
fist	discrete	erase_annotations	Discrete command via GestureActivationController → CommandDispatcher
swiping_right	discrete	next_slide	Discrete command via GestureActivationController → CommandDispatcher
swiping_left	discrete	previous_slide	Discrete command via GestureActivationController → CommandDispatcher
swiping_down	discrete	stop_presentation	Discrete command via GestureActivationController → CommandDispatcher
swiping_up	discrete	start_presentation	Discrete command via GestureActivationController → CommandDispatcher
zooming_in_full_hand	discrete	zoom_in_view	Discrete command via GestureActivationController → CommandDispatcher
zooming_out_full_hand	discrete	zoom_out_view	Discrete command via GestureActivationController → CommandDispatcher
point_one	continuous	—	Continuous tracker: LaserPointerTracker (bypasses discrete dispatcher)
point_two	continuous	—	Continuous tracker: AnnotationPenTracker (bypasses discrete dispatcher)
unknown	discrete	no_action	No-op background class

Feature Schema (feature-schema-v1)

Block	Dims	Description
position	0–62	21 wrist-relative, scale-normalised landmark positions (x, y, z)
fingertip_spread	63–67	5 inter-fingertip Euclidean distances
wrist_trajectory	68–70	Net wrist displacement from oldest frame in the window
velocity	71–133	21 per-landmark wrist-relative velocity vectors (Δposition per unit time)
joint_angles	134–143	10 MCP + PIP joint angles in radians
wrist_vel_raw	144–146	Camera-normalised wrist velocity (x, y, z) — key directional signal

How to Use

import torch
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
from maestro.infrastructure.model.checkpoint_loader import load_inference_artifact

# Download the artifact (cached after first call)
local_path = hf_hub_download(
    repo_id="ntsrigaud/maestro-lstm-hybrid",
    filename="two_stream_attn_v1_2layer_ld_cong_finetune_20260515T134706Z_inference.pt",
)

# Load the artifact (includes model, class labels, and feature schema)
artifact = load_inference_artifact(
    artifact_path=local_path,
    device=torch.device("cpu"),
)
artifact.model.eval()

# Build a 147-dim feature vector using LandmarkFeatureTransformer
# and fill a 32-frame SlidingWindowSequenceBuffer, then:
with torch.no_grad():
    # tensor shape: (batch=1, T=32, F=147)
    window_tensor = torch.tensor(window_np, dtype=torch.float32).unsqueeze(0)
    logits = artifact.model(window_tensor)
    pred_class = artifact.class_labels[logits.argmax(dim=1).item()]

Training Dataset

• Source: Hybrid merge of Jester and IPN-Hand windows: Jester provides unknown/swiping/zoom/stop_sign classes; IPN-Hand provides point_one and point_two
• Used classes: 10 (9 active gestures + unknown background)
• Dataset split: 70% train / 15% val / 15% test (stratified by class)
• Augmentation: temporal scale ±20%, spatial jitter σ=0.005

Training Strategy

Two-phase transfer learning pipeline:

• Phase 1 (pretraining): backbone pretrained on external checkpoint two_stream_attn_v1_2layer_pretrain_20260515T125437Z.pt to learn generic gesture dynamics.
• Phase 2 (fine-tuning): head replaced and model adapted on Hybrid Jester+IPN 10-gesture vocabulary.
• Stage A (frozen backbone): 10 epoch(s) head-only warmup.
• Stage B (full model): up to 66 epoch(s) joint fine-tuning with scheduler/early stopping.
• Stage B retention defences: replay_max_samples_per_class=500, distillation_weight=0.0, replay_ce_weight=0.0, backbone_lr_multiplier=0.1, ewc_weight=N/A, gpm_components=0, forgetting_penalty_weight=0.5.

Training Configuration

Parameter	Value
Architecture	EnhancedTwoStreamLSTM (BiLSTM h=96×2, MHA 8 heads, proj=96, mean+max pool, MLP gate)
Input size	147
Hidden size	96/stream (BiLSTM output: 192)
Projection dim	96
Num layers	2
MHA heads	8 (head dim: 24)
Dropout	0.4
Learning rate	3e-05
Weight decay	0.001
Batch size	128
Max epochs	80
Early stopping patience	20
Label smoothing	0.05
Class weighting	disabled
Max samples per class	3000
LR scheduler	ReduceLROnPlateau (factor=0.5, patience=10)

Evaluation Results (Test Set)

Metric	Value
Accuracy	96.1%
Macro F1	95.9%

Per-Class Recall

Class	Recall
fist	97.3%
swiping_right	97.1%
swiping_left	98.3%
swiping_down	98.0%
swiping_up	98.2%
zooming_in_full_hand	97.0%
zooming_out_full_hand	95.1%
point_one	97.4%
point_two	95.1%
unknown	85.7%

Comparison with Previous Architecture

Feature	TwoStreamGestureLSTM	EnhancedTwoStreamLSTM
LSTM direction	Unidirectional	Bidirectional
Attention	Bahdanau (scalar)	MHA Q/K/V (8 heads)
Feature projection	No	Yes (→96)
Temporal pooling	Mean only	Mean + Max
Cross-stream fusion	Concat only	2-layer MLP gate
Parameters	~182 K	~1,208,554

Limitations and Risks

• Trained on IPN Hand subjects only. Performance may degrade with unusual hand sizes, skin tones, or lighting conditions not represented in training data.
• The unknown class represents background/transition frames. At runtime, predictions are filtered through per-class confidence thresholds defined in production_hybrid.yaml.
• Requires mediapipe>=0.10.14 for landmark extraction at inference time.
• Not intended for safety-critical or accessibility-critical applications.
• Performance was measured on a held-out test split from the same dataset; real-world generalisation may differ.

Environmental Impact

Training was performed on CPU/MPS. Estimated training time: ~10 minutes. Estimated CO₂ equivalent: negligible (<0.001 kg CO₂eq).

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Generated by the Maestro training pipeline on 2026-05-15.