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Accurate and responsive myoelectric prosthesis control typically relies on complex, dense multi-sensor arrays, which limits consumer accessibility. This paper presents a novel, data-efficient deep learning framework designed to achieve…

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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

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

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

Surface electromyography (sEMG) recordings can be influenced by electrocardiogram (ECG) signals when the muscle being monitored is close to the heart. Several existing methods use signal-processing-based approaches, such as high-pass filter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Yu-Tung Liu , Kuan-Chen Wang , Kai-Chun Liu , Sheng-Yu Peng , Yu Tsao

By using a computer keyboard as a finger recording device, we construct the largest existing dataset for gesture recognition via surface electromyography (sEMG), and use deep learning to achieve over 90% character-level accuracy on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Michael S. Crouch , Mingde Zheng , Michael S. Eggleston

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

Electromyography (EMG) signal analysis is a popular method for controlling prosthetic and gesture control equipment. For portable systems, such as prosthetic limbs, real-time low-power operation on embedded processors is critical, but to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-10 Sumit Raurale , John McAllister , Jesus Martinez del Rincon

This study presents a comprehensive approach for the clustering and classification of upper-limb surface electromyography (sEMG) signals during functional reach and grasp movements. The methodology was applied to the NINAPRO DB4 dataset,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 L. F. Salazar Álvarez , D. Escobar-Saltarén , M. B. Salazar Sánchez , S. C. Henao-Aguirre

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

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

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

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

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…

Designing efficient and labor-saving prosthetic hands requires powerful hand gesture recognition algorithms that can achieve high accuracy with limited complexity and latency. In this context, the paper proposes a compact deep learning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-08 Mansooreh Montazerin , Elahe Rahimian , Farnoosh Naderkhani , S. Farokh Atashzar , Svetlana Yanushkevich , Arash Mohammadi

Surface electromyography (s-EMG) sensors are a promising way to control upper-limb prostheses. However a training session is necessary in order to set up the controller that will make s-EMG based movement possible. All data recorded during…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2015-11-25 Marco Lampacrescia

The instability of myoelectric signals over time complicates their use to control highly articulated prostheses. To address this problem, studies have tried to combine surface electromyography with modalities that are less affected by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Andrea Gigli , Arjan Gijsberts , Valentina Gregori , Matteo Cognolato , Manfredo Atzori , Barbara Caputo

Surface electromyographic (sEMG) signal serve as a signal source commonly used for lower limb movement recognition, reflecting the intent of human movement. However, it has been a challenge to improve the movements recognition rate while…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Yongkai Ma , Shili Liang , Zekun Chen

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

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made significant advances in recent years and opened up new possibilities in exploring applications in various fields such as biomedical, robotics, education, industry, etc. Among these fields, human hand…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Naveen Gehlot , Ashutosh Jena , Rajesh Kumar , Mahipal Bukya