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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…

Automatic recognition of the quality of movement in human beings is a challenging task, given the difficulty both in defining the constraints that make a movement correct, and the difficulty in using noisy data to determine if these…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Carlos Palma , Augusto Salazar , Francisco Vargas

Surface electromyography (EMG) serves as a pivotal tool in hand gesture recognition and human-computer interaction, offering a non-invasive means of signal acquisition. This study presents a novel methodology for classifying hand gestures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Abu Saleh Musa Miah , Najmul Hassan , Md. Maniruzzaman , Nobuyoshi Asai , Jungpil Shin

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

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

Surface Electromyography (sEMG) is a non-invasive signal that is used in the recognition of hand movement patterns, the diagnosis of diseases, and the robust control of prostheses. Despite the remarkable success of recent end-to-end Deep…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Chuheng Wu , S. Farokh Atashzar , Mohammad M. Ghassemi , Tuka Alhanai

Accurate and real-time hand gesture recognition is essential for controlling advanced hand prostheses. Surface Electromyography (sEMG) signals obtained from the forearm are widely used for this purpose. Here, we introduce a novel hand…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Ashwin De Silva , Malsha V. Perera , Kithmin Wickramasinghe , Asma M. Naim , Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne , Simon L. Kappel

We define a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) in which each hidden state has time-dependent $\textit{activity levels}$ that drive transitions and emissions, and show how to estimate its parameters. Our construction is motivated by the problem of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-28 David A. Meyer , Asif Shakeel

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

Conventional electromyography (EMG) measures the continuous neural activity during muscle contraction, but lacks explicit quantification of the actual contraction. Mechanomyography (MMG) and accelerometers only measure body surface motion,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Zijing Zhang , Edwin C. Kan

Statistical models of Surface electromyography (sEMG) signals have several applications such as better understanding of sEMG signal generation, improved pattern recognition based control of wearable exoskeletons and prostheses, improving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-16 Durgesh Kusuru , Anish C. Turlapaty , Mainak Thakur

Psychiatric patients' passive activity monitoring is crucial to detect behavioural shifts in real-time, comprising a tool that helps clinicians supervise patients' evolution over time and enhance the associated treatments' outcomes.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Fernando Moreno-Pino , María Martínez-García , Pablo M. Olmos , Antonio Artés-Rodríguez

Wearable robotics have the capacity to assist stroke survivors in assisting and rehabilitating hand function. Many devices that use surface electromyographic (sEMG) for control rely on extrinsic muscle signals, since sEMG sensors are…

Discovery and recognition of Group Activities (GA) based on imagery data processing have significant applications in persistent surveillance systems, which play an important role in some Internet services. The process is involved with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Vinayak Elangovan

The main purpose of this research is to move the robotic arm (5DoF) in real-time, based on the surface Electromyography (sEMG) signals, as obtained from the wireless Myo gesture armband to distinguish seven hand movements. The sEMG signals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-24 Hussein F. Hassan , Sadiq J. Abou-Loukh , Ibraheem Kasim Ibraheem

This paper presents a novel approach for automatic recognition of group activities for video surveillance applications. We propose to use a group representative to handle the recognition with a varying number of group members, and use an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Weiyao Lin , Ming-Ting Sun , Radha Poovendran , Zhengyou Zhang

Characterizing the sleep-wake cycle in adolescents is an important prerequisite to better understand the association of abnormal sleep patterns with subsequent clinical and behavioral outcomes. The aim of this research was to develop hidden…

Applications · Statistics 2022-12-22 Semhar B. Ogbagaber , Yifan Cui , Kaigang Li , Ronald J. Iannotti , Paul S. Albert

Hand gesture recognition (HGR) has gained significant attention due to the increasing use of AI-powered human-computer interfaces that can interpret the deep spatiotemporal dynamics of biosignals from the peripheral nervous system, such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Golara Ahmadi Azar , Qin Hu , Melika Emami , Alyson Fletcher , Sundeep Rangan , S. Farokh Atashzar

Learning and understanding the typical patterns in the daily activities and routines of people from low-level sensory data is an important problem in many application domains such as building smart environments, or providing intelligent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-14 Truyen Tran , Hung Bui , Svetha Venkatesh

In the last few years there has been a growing interest in Human Activity Recognition~(HAR) topic. Sensor-based HAR approaches, in particular, has been gaining more popularity owing to their privacy preserving nature. Furthermore, due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Parviz Asghari , Elnaz Soelimani , Ehsan Nazerfard