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EMG-based gesture recognition shows promise for human-machine interaction. Systems are often afflicted by signal and electrode variability which degrades performance over time. We present an end-to-end system combating this variability…

EMG-based hand gesture recognition uses electromyographic~(EMG) signals to interpret and classify hand movements by analyzing electrical activity generated by muscle contractions. It has wide applications in prosthesis control,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Parshuram N. Aarotale , Ajita Rattani

sEMG pattern recognition algorithms have been explored extensively in decoding movement intent, yet are known to be vulnerable to changing recording conditions, exhibiting significant drops in performance across subjects, and even across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Joao Pereira , Dimitrios Chalatsis , Balint Hodossy , Dario Farina

Thumb gestures provide an effective and unobtrusive input modality for wearable and always-available human-machine interaction. Wrist-worn surface electromyography (sEMG) has emerged as a promising approach for compact and wearable…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Wenjuan Zhong , Chenfei Ma , Kianoush Nazarpour

Accurate hand gesture prediction is crucial for effective upper-limb prosthetic limbs control. As the high flexibility and multiple degrees of freedom exhibited by human hands, there has been a growing interest in integrating deep networks…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Wenjuan Zhong , Yuyang Zhang , Peiwen Fu , Wenxuan Xiong , Mingming Zhang

Gesture recognition based on surface electromyographic signal (sEMG) is one of the most used methods. The traditional manual feature extraction can only extract some low-level signal features, this causes poor classifier performance and low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Mingjin Zhang , Jiahao Wang , Jianming Wang , Qi Wang

Surface electromyography (sEMG) is a popular bio-signal used for controlling prostheses and finger gesture recognition mechanisms. Myoelectric prostheses are costly, and most commercially available sEMG acquisition systems are not suitable…

Hand gesture recognition using multichannel surface electromyography (sEMG) is challenging due to unstable predictions and inefficient time-varying feature enhancement. To overcome the lack of signal based time-varying feature problems, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Jungpil Shin , Abu Saleh Musa Miah , Sota Konnai , Shu Hoshitaka , Pankoo Kim

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

In this paper, we present electromyography analysis of human activity - database 1 (EMAHA-DB1), a novel dataset of multi-channel surface electromyography (sEMG) signals to evaluate the activities of daily living (ADL). The dataset is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-10 Naveen Kumar Karnam , Anish Chand Turlapaty , Shiv Ram Dubey , Balakrishna Gokaraju

High-density electromyography (HD-EMG) has emerged as a powerful modality for decoding fine-grained neuromuscular activity, enabling real-time neural-machine interfaces (NMIs) for applications such as prosthetic control, rehabilitation, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Peter Chudinov , Zhenyu Lin , Jay Motamarry , Srihita Panati , Xiaorong Zhang , Zhuwei Qin

The electromyography (EMG) signal is the electrical manifestation of a neuromuscular activation that provides access to physiological processes which cause the muscle to generate force and produce movement. Non invasive prostheses use such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Mara Graziani

Surface electromyography (sEMG) is a non-invasive method of measuring neuromuscular potentials generated when the brain instructs the body to perform both fine and coarse locomotion. This technique has seen extensive investigation over the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Mingde Zheng , Michael S. Crouch , Michael S. Eggleston

The aim of this work was to identify six basic movements of the hand using two systems. Being an interdisciplinary topic, there has been conducted studying in the anatomy of forearm muscles, biosignals, the method of electromyography (EMG)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Christos Sapsanis

Tendon-driven robotic hands offer unparalleled dexterity for manipulation tasks, but learning control policies for such systems presents unique challenges. Unlike joint-actuated robotic hands, tendon-driven systems lack a direct one-to-one…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Sagar Verma

Surface Electromyography (sEMG/EMG) is to record muscles' electrical activity from a restricted area of the skin by using electrodes. The sEMG-based gesture recognition is extremely sensitive of inter-session and inter-subject variances. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 István Ketykó , Ferenc Kovács , Krisztián Zsolt Varga

In this paper, we investigate hand gesture classifiers that rely upon the abstracted 'skeletal' data recorded using the RGB-Depth sensor. We focus on 'skeletal' data represented by the body joint coordinates, from the Praxis dataset. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Rahat Islam , Kenneth Lai , Svetlana Yanushkevich

Regressively-based surface electromyography (sEMG) prosthetics are widely used for their ability to continuously convert muscle activity into finger force and motion. However, they typically require additional kinematic or dynamic sensors,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Gang Liu , Ye Sun , Zhenxiang Wang , Chuanmei Xi , Ziyang He , Shanshan Guo , Rui Zhang , Dezhong Yao

Gesture recognition with electromyography (EMG) is a complex problem influenced by gesture sets, electrode count and placement, and machine learning parameters (e.g., features, classifiers). Most existing toolkits focus on streamlining…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Anand Kumar , Antony Albert Raj Irudayaraj , Ishita Chandra , Adwait Sharma , Aditya Shekhar Nittala

Gestures are an integral part of our daily interactions with the environment. Hand gesture recognition (HGR) is the process of interpreting human intent through various input modalities, such as visual data (images and videos) and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Soroush Baghernezhad , Elaheh Mohammadreza , Vinicius Prado da Fonseca , Ting Zou , Xianta Jiang