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REACT: A Conditioning Framework for User-Adaptive sEMG Hand Pose Estimation

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Abstract

Surface electromyography (sEMG) enables continuous hand pose estimation on wearable devices, but models trained on multi-user corpora degrade on unseen individuals due to inter-user variability in anatomy and electrode placement. We propose REACT, a lightweight conditioning framework that personalizes a frozen pretrained EMG-to-pose backbone at inference time using only a handful of calibration recordings. REACT learns a compact user embedding from calibration data and applies Feature-wise Linear Modulation (FiLM) to adapt the shared encoder's feature space, requiring no gradient updates at deployment. On the large-scale EMG2POSE benchmark, REACT improves over the state-of-the-art baseline across all three generalization splits in both regression and tracking modes, reducing angular error by up to 3.9% with minimal parameter overhead and under 45 seconds of per-user calibration.

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures

Cite

@article{arxiv.2605.30127,
  title  = {REACT: A Conditioning Framework for User-Adaptive sEMG Hand Pose Estimation},
  author = {Eric Xie and Hei Shing Cheung},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.30127},
  year   = {2026}
}