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Surface electromyography (sEMG) is a non-invasive method of measuring neuromuscular potentials generated when the brain instructs the body to perform both fine and coarse locomotion. This technique has seen extensive investigation over the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Mingde Zheng , Michael S. Crouch , Michael S. Eggleston

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

Ankle exoskeletons have garnered considerable interest for their potential to enhance mobility and reduce fall risks, particularly among the aging population. The efficacy of these devices relies on accurate real-time prediction of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Silas Ruhrberg Estévez , Josée Mallah , Dominika Kazieczko , Chenyu Tang , Luigi G. Occhipinti

Surface electromyography (sEMG) signal-based activity recognition has attracted increasing research attention in recent years. To develop accurate sEMG signal-based activity recognizers, numerous approaches have been proposed. Some studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ming Wang , Haoxuan Qu , Qiuhong Ke , Wei Zhou , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

In this paper, we propose a novel single image action recognition algorithm which is based on the idea of semantic body part actions. Unlike existing bottom up methods, we argue that the human action is a combination of meaningful body part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Zhichen Zhao , Huimin Ma , Shaodi You

Activity recognition computer vision algorithms can be used to detect the presence of autism-related behaviors, including what are termed "restricted and repetitive behaviors", or stimming, by diagnostic instruments. The limited data that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Peter Washington , Aaron Kline , Onur Cezmi Mutlu , Emilie Leblanc , Cathy Hou , Nate Stockham , Kelley Paskov , Brianna Chrisman , Dennis P. Wall

Even though it is well known that physical exercises have numerous emotional and physical health benefits, maintaining a regular exercise routine is quite challenging. Fortunately, there exist technologies that promote physical activity.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Shun Ishii , Kizito Nkurikiyeyezu , Anna Yokokubo , Guillaume Lopez

Myoelectric control is one of the leading areas of research in the field of robotic prosthetics. We present our research in surface electromyography (sEMG) signal classification, where our simple and novel attention-based approach now leads…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-19 David Josephs , Carson Drake , Andrew Heroy , John Santerre

EMG-based hand gesture recognition uses electromyographic~(EMG) signals to interpret and classify hand movements by analyzing electrical activity generated by muscle contractions. It has wide applications in prosthesis control,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Parshuram N. Aarotale , Ajita Rattani

Surface electromyography (sEMG) signals exhibit substantial inter-subject variability and are highly susceptible to noise, posing challenges for robust and interpretable decoding. To address these limitations, we propose a discrete…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Yuepeng Chen , Kaili Zheng , Ji Wu , Zhuangzhuang Li , Ye Ma , Dongwei Liu , Chenyi Guo , Xiangling Fu

The ability to accurately identify human activities is essential for developing automatic rehabilitation and sports training systems. In this paper, large-scale exercise motion data obtained from a forearm-worn wearable sensor are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Terry Taewoong Um , Vahid Babakeshizadeh , Dana Kulić

Activity classification was performed using MEMS accelerometer and wireless sensor node for wireless sensor network environment. Three axes MEMS accelerometer measures body's acceleration and transmits measured data with the help of sensor…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2011-07-25 Wan-Young Chung , Amit Purwar , Annapurna Sharma

Home-based physical therapies are effective if the prescribed exercises are correctly executed and patients adhere to these routines. This is specially important for older adults who can easily forget the guidelines from therapists.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Sara García-de-Villa , David Casillas-Pérez , Ana Jiménez-Martín , Juan Jesús García-Domínguez

The problem of automatic identification of physical activities performed by human subjects is referred to as Human Activity Recognition (HAR). There exist several techniques to measure motion characteristics during these physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Antonio Bevilacqua , Kyle MacDonald , Aamina Rangarej , Venessa Widjaya , Brian Caulfield , Tahar Kechadi

The aim of this work was to identify six basic movements of the hand using two systems. Being an interdisciplinary topic, there has been conducted studying in the anatomy of forearm muscles, biosignals, the method of electromyography (EMG)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Christos Sapsanis

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

The loss of limb motion arising from damage to the spinal cord is a disability that could effect people while performing their day-to-day activities. The restoration of limb movement would enable people with spinal cord injury to interact…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Saadat Ullah Khan , Muhammad Majid , Syed Muhammad Anwar

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

An accurate classification of upper limb movements using electroencephalography (EEG) signals is gaining significant importance in recent years due to the prevalence of brain-computer interfaces. The upper limbs in the human body are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-14 Saadat Ullah Khan , Muhammad Majid , Syed Muhammad Anwar

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