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Unlike the system based on fixed, predefined gestures, the proposed approach enables users to define and train their own gesture sets. During gesture recording, users may either select a gesture pattern from a predefined prompt set or create their own natural, unprompted gestures. A dedicated software framework was developed for data acquisition, preprocessing, model training, and real-time recognition. The developed system was evaluated by optimizing the parameters of a lightweight CNN and examining the influence of sequentially applied changes to the input and network pipelines, including resizing the input layer, applying data augmentation, experimenting with different dropout ratios, and varying the number of learning samples. The performance of the resulting network setup was assessed using confusion matrices, accuracy, and precision metrics for both original gestures and gestures smoothed using the cubic B\u00e9zier function. The resulting validation accuracy ranged from 0.88 to 0.94, with an average test-set accuracy of 0.92 and macro precision of 0.92. The system\u2019s resilience to rapid or casual gestures was also evaluated using the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) method, achieving an Area Under the Curve (AUC) of 0.97. 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