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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

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

Electromyography (EMG) is a measure of muscular electrical activity and is used in many clinical/biomedical disciplines and modern human computer interaction. Myo-electric prosthetics analyze and classify the electrical signals recorded…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Mosab Diab , Ashraf Mohammed , Yinlai Jiang

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

$\textit{Objective.}$ In this article, we present data and methods for decoding hand gestures using surface electromyogram (EMG) signals. EMG-based upper limb interfaces are valuable for amputee rehabilitation, artificial supernumerary limb…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Harshavardhana T. Gowda , Lee M. Miller

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

Electromyography (EMG) signals have been successfully employed for driving prosthetic limbs of a single or double degree of freedom. This principle works by using the amplitude of the EMG signals to decide between one or two simpler…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Asad Ullah , Sarwan Ali , Imdadullah Khan , Muhammad Asad Khan , Safiullah Faizullah

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 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

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

In sensitive scenarios, such as meetings, negotiations, and team sports, messages must be conveyed without detection by non-collaborators. Previous methods, such as encrypting messages, eye contact, and micro-gestures, had problems with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Hongxin Li , Jingsheng Tang , Xuechao Xu , Wei Dai , Yaru Liu , Junhao Xiao , Huimin Lu , Zongtan Zhou

Developing electroencephalogram (EEG) based brain-computer interface (BCI) systems is challenging. In this study, we analyzed natural grasp actions from EEG. Ten healthy subjects participated in this experiment. They executed and imagined…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Jeong-Hyun Cho , Ji-Hoon Jeong , Dong-Joo Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

Objective: The objective of the study is to efficiently increase the expressivity of surface electromyography-based (sEMG) gesture recognition systems. Approach: We use a problem transformation approach, in which actions were subset into…

Objective: Multimodal hand gesture recognition (HGR) systems can achieve higher recognition accuracy compared to unimodal HGR systems. However, acquiring multimodal gesture recognition data typically requires users to wear additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Wentao Wei , Linyan Ren

Classifying limb movements using brain activity is an important task in Brain-computer Interfaces (BCI) that has been successfully used in multiple application domains, ranging from human-computer interaction to medical and biomedical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Guangyi Zhang , Vandad Davoodnia , Alireza Sepas-Moghaddam , Yaoxue Zhang , Ali Etemad

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

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ziheng Xi , Jiayi Yu , Yitao Wang , Yanbo Duan , Jianjiang Feng , Jie Zhou

In this study, we introduce a novel variant and application of the Collaborative Representation based Classification in spectral domain for recognition of the hand gestures using the raw surface Electromyography signals. The intuitive use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-29 Ali Boyali

Surface Electromyography (sEMG) is a technology to measure the bio-potentials across the muscles. The true prospective of this technology is yet to be explored. In this paper, a simple and economic construction of a sEMG sensor is proposed.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-10-15 Abhishek Jha , Mrinal Sen