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Natural muscles provide mobility in response to nerve impulses. Electromyography (EMG) measures the electrical activity of muscles in response to a nerve's stimulation. In the past few decades, EMG signals have been used extensively in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-15 Mohsen Jafarzadeh , Daniel Curtiss Hussey , Yonas Tadesse

Gesture recognition based on surface electromyography (sEMG) has been gaining importance in many 3D Interactive Scenes. However, sEMG is easily influenced by various forms of noise in real-world environments, leading to challenges in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Weiyu Guo , Ziyue Qiao , Ying Sun , Hui Xiong

Surface Electromyography (sEMG) provides vital insights into muscle function, but it can be noisy and challenging to acquire. Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) provide a robust and wearable alternative to motion capture systems. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Shubhranil Basak , Mada Hemanth , Madhav Rao

Sonomyography (SMG) is a novel human-machine interface that controls upper-limb prostheses by monitoring forearm muscle activity using ultrasonic imaging. SMG has been investigated for controlling upper-limb prostheses during the last two…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Vaheh Nazari , Yong-Ping Zheng

We introduce LowKeyEMG, a real-time human-computer interface that enables efficient text entry using only 7 gesture classes decoded from surface electromyography (sEMG). Prior work has attempted full-alphabet decoding from sEMG, but…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Johannes Y. Lee , Derek Xiao , Shreyas Kaasyap , Nima R. Hadidi , John L. Zhou , Jacob Cunningham , Rakshith R. Gore , Deniz O. Eren , Jonathan C. Kao

Hand gesture is one of the most important means of touchless communication between human and machines. There is a great interest for commanding electronic equipment in surgery rooms by hand gesture for reducing the time of surgery and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Ebrahim Nasr-Esfahani , Nader Karimi , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , M. Hossein Jafari , M. Amin Khorsandi , Shadrokh Samavi , Kayvan Najarian

In the field of affective computing, researchers in the community have promoted the performance of models and algorithms by using the complementarity of multimodal information. However, the emergence of more and more modal information makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Binqiang Wang , Gang Dong , Yaqian Zhao , Rengang Li , Lu Cao , Lihua Lu

Recent advancements in millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar have demonstrated its potential for human action recognition and pose estimation, offering privacy-preserving advantages over conventional cameras while maintaining occlusion robustness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yizhe Lv , Tingting Zhang , Zhijian Wang , Yunpeng Song , Han Ding , Jinsong Han , Fei Wang

In this paper, we propose a new hand gesture recognition method based on skeletal data by learning SPD matrices with neural networks. We model the hand skeleton as a graph and introduce a neural network for SPD matrix learning, taking as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Xuan Nguyen , Luc Brun , Olivier Lezoray , Sébastien Bougleux

Emotion recognition (ER) technology is an integral part for developing innovative applications such as drowsiness detection and health monitoring that plays a pivotal role in contemporary society. This study delves into ER using…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Haseeb ur Rahman Abbasi , Zeeshan Rashid , Muhammad Majid , Syed Muhammad Anwar

This paper aims to introduce HDE-Array (High-Density Electrode Array), a novel dry electrode array for acquiring High-Density surface electromyography (HD-sEMG) for hand position estimation through RPC-Net (Recursive Prosthetic Control…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Giovanni Rolandino , Chiara Zangrandi , Taian Vieira , Giacinto Luigi Cerone , Brian Andrews , James J. FitzGerald

We present an on-device real-time hand gesture recognition (HGR) system, which detects a set of predefined static gestures from a single RGB camera. The system consists of two parts: a hand skeleton tracker and a gesture classifier. We use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 George Sung , Kanstantsin Sokal , Esha Uboweja , Valentin Bazarevsky , Jonathan Baccash , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Chuo-Ling Chang , Matthias Grundmann

This paper presents the outcomes of a contest organized to evaluate methods for the online recognition of heterogeneous gestures from sequences of 3D hand poses. The task is the detection of gestures belonging to a dictionary of 16 classes…

The use of hand gestures provides a natural alternative to cumbersome interface devices for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) systems. As the technology advances and communication between humans and machines becomes more complex, HCI systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Okan Köpüklü , Yao Rong , Gerhard Rigoll

This paper presents a user interface designed to enable computer cursor control through hand detection and gesture classification. A comprehensive hand dataset comprising 6720 image samples was collected, encompassing four distinct classes:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Yalda Foroutan , Ahmad Kalhor , Saeid Mohammadi Nejati , Samad Sheikhaei

The recent introduction of depth cameras like Leap Motion Controller allows researchers to exploit the depth information to recognize hand gesture more robustly. This paper proposes a novel hand gesture recognition system with Leap Motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Youchen Du , Shenglan Liu , Lin Feng , Menghui Chen , Jie Wu

Surface electromyography (sEMG) sensors are widely used in human-computer interaction, yet the failure of a single sensor can compromise system usability. We propose a methodological framework for implementing a fail-safe mechanism in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Freek Hens , Amirhossein Sadough , Aleksa Bokšan , Mahyar Shahsavari , Mohammad Mahdi Dehshibi

The electrodermal activity (EDA) signal is a sensitive and non-invasive surrogate measure of sympathetic function. Use of EDA has increased in popularity in recent years for such applications as emotion and stress recognition; assessment of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-19 Md Billal Hossain , Hugo Fernando Posada-Quintero , Youngsun Kong , Riley McNaboe , Ki Chon

Objective: For transradial amputees, robotic prosthetic hands promise to regain the capability to perform daily living activities. Current control methods based on physiological signals such as electromyography (EMG) are prone to yielding…

Automated hand gesture recognition has been a focus of the AI community for decades. Traditionally, work in this domain revolved largely around scenarios assuming the availability of the flow of images of the user hands. This has partly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Ying Liu , Liucheng Guo , Valeri A. Makarov , Yuxiang Huang , Alexander Gorban , Evgeny Mirkes , Ivan Y. Tyukin