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Human gesture recognition has assumed a capital role in industrial applications, such as Human-Machine Interaction. We propose an approach for segmentation and classification of dynamic gestures based on a set of handcrafted features, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 André Brás , Miguel Simão , Pedro Neto

Sonomyography (SMG) is a non-invasive technique that uses ultrasound imaging to detect the dynamic activity of muscles. Wearable SMG systems have recently gained popularity due to their potential as human-computer interfaces for their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Anne Tryphosa Kamatham , Kavita Sharma , Srikumar Venkataraman , Biswarup Mukherjee

Segmenting and recognizing surgical operation trajectories into distinct, meaningful gestures is a critical preliminary step in surgical workflow analysis for robot-assisted surgery. This step is necessary for facilitating learning from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Zhili Yuan , Jialin Lin , Dandan Zhang

Estimation of a hand grip force is essential for the understanding of force pattern during the execution of assembly or disassembly operations. Human demonstration of a correct way of doing an operation is a powerful source of information…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Andrey Sartison , Dima Mironov , Kamal Youcef-Toumi , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

We investigate the relationship between the extensor electromyogram (EMG) and tremor time series in physiological hand tremor by cross-spectral analysis. Special attention is directed to the phase spectrum and the effects of observational…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Timmer , M. Lauk , W. Pfleger , G. Deuschl

Grasp detection methods typically target the detection of a set of free-floating hand poses that can grasp the object. However, not all of the detected grasp poses are executable due to physical constraints. Even though it is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Tianyi Ko , Takuya Ikeda , Balazs Opra , Koichi Nishiwaki

Manual material handling tasks have the potential to be highly unsafe from an ergonomic viewpoint. Safety inspections to monitor body postures can help mitigate ergonomic risks of material handling. However, the real effect of awkward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Srimantha E. Mudiyanselage , Phuong H. D. Nguyen , Mohammad Sadra Rajabi , Reza Akhavian

The recent ongoing coronavirus pandemic highlights the importance of hand hygiene practices in our daily lives, with governments and worldwide health authorities promoting good hand hygiene practices. More than one million cases of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Rashmi Bakshi

Surface electromyogram (EMG) can be employed as an interface signal for various devices and software via pattern recognition. In EMG-based pattern recognition, the classifier should not only be accurate, but also output an appropriate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Akira Furui

The goal of this work is the identification of humans based on motion data in the form of natural hand gestures. In this paper, the identification problem is formulated as classification with classes corresponding to persons' identities,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2013-03-20 Michał Romaszewski , Przemysław Głomb , Piotr Gawron

Robust and human-like dexterous grasping of general objects is a critical capability for advancing intelligent robotic manipulation in real-world scenarios. However, existing reinforcement learning methods guided by grasp priors often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Fangting Xu , Jilin Zhu , Xiaoming Gu , Jianzhong Tang

Accurate classification of lower limb movements using surface electromyography (sEMG) signals plays a crucial role in assistive robotics and rehabilitation systems. In this study, we present a lightweight attention-based deep neural network…

Electromyography signals can be used as training data by machine learning models to classify various gestures. We seek to produce a model that can classify six different hand gestures with a limited number of samples that generalizes well…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-01 Tekin Gunasar , Alexandra Rekesh , Atul Nair , Penelope King , Anastasiya Markova , Jiaqi Zhang , Isabel Tate

Recently, surface electromyography (sEMG) emerged as a novel biometric authentication method. Since EMG system parameters, such as the feature extraction methods and the number of channels, have been known to affect system performances, it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Ashirbad Pradhan , Jiayuan He , Ning Jiang

Hand gestures recognition (HGR) is one of the main areas of research for the engineers, scientists and bioinformatics. HGR is the natural way of Human Machine interaction and today many researchers in the academia and industry are working…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Ankit Chaudhary , J. L. Raheja , Karen Das , Sonia Raheja

Discrimination of hand gestures based on the decoding of surface electromyography (sEMG) signals is a well-establish approach for controlling prosthetic devices and for Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI). However, despite the promising results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Elisa Donati , Simone Benatti , Enea Ceolini , Giacomo Indiveri

Stroke patients have symptoms of cerebral functional disturbance that could aggressively impair patient's physical mobility, such as freezing of hand movements. Although rehabilitation training from external devices is beneficial for hand…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Xiaotong Gu , Zehong Cao

The classification of electroencephalography (EEG) signals is useful in a wide range of applications such as seizure detection/prediction, motor imagery classification, emotion classification and drug effects diagnosis, amongst others. With…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Phoebe M Asquith , Hisham Ihshaish

At the present time, hand gestures recognition system could be used as a more expected and useable approach for human computer interaction. Automatic hand gesture recognition system provides us a new tactic for interactive with the virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-08 Reza Azad , Babak Azad , Nabil Belhaj Khalifa , Shahram Jamali

Objective: Surgical activity recognition is a fundamental step in computer-assisted interventions. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art in methods for automatic recognition of fine-grained gestures in robotic surgery focusing on recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Beatrice van Amsterdam , Matthew J. Clarkson , Danail Stoyanov