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Cross-user electromyography (EMG)-based gesture recognition represents a fundamental challenge in achieving scalable and personalized human-machine interaction within real-world applications. Despite extensive efforts, existing…

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Based on recent health statistics, there are several thousands of people with limb disability and gait disorders that require a medical assistance. A robot assisted rehabilitation therapy can help them recover and return to a normal life.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-04 Anish C. Turlapaty , Balakrishna Gokaraju

Current electromyography (EMG) pattern recognition (PR) models have been shown to generalize poorly in unconstrained environments, setting back their adoption in applications such as hand gesture control. This problem is often due to…

Key properties of brain-inspired hyperdimensional (HD) computing make it a prime candidate for energy-efficient and fast learning in biosignal processing. The main challenge is however to formulate embedding methods that map biosignal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-01 Michael Hersche , José del R. Millán , Luca Benini , Abbas Rahimi

Higher-order tensor decompositions have hardly been used in muscle activity analysis despite multichannel electromyography (EMG) datasets naturally occurring as multi-way structures. Here, we seek to demonstrate and discuss the potential of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-26 Ahmed Ebied , Eli Kinney-lang , Loukianos Spyrou , Javier Escudero

The dynamic hand gesture recognition task has seen studies on various unimodal and multimodal methods. Previously, researchers have explored depth and 2D-skeleton-based multimodal fusion CRNNs (Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks) but…

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Hand gesture recognition based on surface electromyographic (sEMG) signals is a promising approach for developing Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) with a natural control, such as intuitive robot interfaces or poly-articulated prostheses.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Marcello Zanghieri

Surface electromyography (sEMG) signals hold significant potential for gesture recognition and robust prosthetic hand development. However, sEMG signals are affected by various physiological and dynamic factors, including forearm…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-27 Umme Rumman , Arifa Ferdousi , Bipin Saha , Md. Sazzad Hossain , Md. Johirul Islam , Shamim Ahmad , Mamun Bin Ibne Reaz , Md. Rezaul Islam

The discrimination of human gestures using wearable solutions is extremely important as a supporting technique for assisted living, healthcare of the elderly and neurorehabilitation. This paper presents a mobile electromyography (EMG)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Enea Ceolini , Gemma Taverni , Lyes Khacef , Melika Payvand , Elisa Donati

In myoelectric control, simultaneous control of multiple degrees of freedom can be challenging due to the dexterity of the human hand. Numerous studies have focused on hand functionality, however, they only focused on a few degrees of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Farnaz Rahimi , Mohammad Ali Badamchizadeh , Raul C. Sîmpetru , Sehraneh Ghaemi , Bjoern M. Eskofier , Alessandro Del Vecchio

Bimanual gestures are of the utmost importance for the study of motor coordination in humans and in everyday activities. A reliable detection of bimanual gestures in unconstrained environments is fundamental for their clinical study and to…

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Motivated behaviour relies on the brain's capacity to evaluate effort and reward. Dysregulation within these processes contributes to a spectrum of conditions, from hyperactivity in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to…

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Hand gesture understanding is essential for several applications in human-computer interaction, including automatic clinical assessment of hand dexterity. While deep learning has advanced static gesture recognition, dynamic gesture…

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For lower arm amputees, prosthetic hands promise to restore most of physical interaction capabilities. This requires to accurately predict hand gestures capable of grabbing varying objects and execute them timely as intended by the user.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Mehrshad Zandigohar , Mo Han , Deniz Erdogmus , Gunar Schirner

Surface electromyography is a valid tool to gather muscular contraction signals from intact and amputated subjects. Electromyographic signals can be used to control prosthetic devices in a noninvasive way distinguishing the movements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Francesca Giordaniello

Objective: Variation of forearm orientation is one of the crucial factors that drastically degrades the forearm orientation invariant hand gesture recognition performance or the degree of freedom and limits the successful commercialization…

Surface electromyography (sEMG) records muscle activity during hand movement and can be decoded to recover detailed hand articulation. EMG and egocentric vision are complementary for hand sensing: EMG captures fine-grained finger…

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Daily life of thousands of individuals around the globe suffers due to physical or mental disability related to limb movement. The quality of life for such individuals can be made better by use of assistive applications and systems. In such…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Asad Mansoor Khan , Ayesha Sadiq , Sajid Gul Khawaja , Norah Saleh Alghamdi , Muhammad Usman Akram , Ali Saeed

Accurate force/torque estimation is essential for applications such as powered exoskeletons, robotics, and rehabilitation. However, force/torque estimation under dynamic conditions is a challenging due to changing joint angles, force…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-22 Gelareh Hajian , Evelyn Morin , Ali Etemad

Myoelectric control is one of the leading areas of research in the field of robotic prosthetics. We present our research in surface electromyography (sEMG) signal classification, where our simple and novel attention-based approach now leads…

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