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We study the task of gesture recognition from electromyography (EMG), with the goal of enabling expressive human-computer interaction at high accuracy, while minimizing the time required for new subjects to provide calibration data. To…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Niklas Smedemark-Margulies , Yunus Bicer , Elifnur Sunger , Tales Imbiriba , Eugene Tunik , Deniz Erdogmus , Mathew Yarossi , Robin Walters

Gestures are an integral part of our daily interactions with the environment. Hand gesture recognition (HGR) is the process of interpreting human intent through various input modalities, such as visual data (images and videos) and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Soroush Baghernezhad , Elaheh Mohammadreza , Vinicius Prado da Fonseca , Ting Zou , Xianta Jiang

Air-writing is the process of writing characters or words in free space using finger or hand movements without the aid of any hand-held device. In this work, we address the problem of mid-air finger writing using web-cam video as input. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Sohom Mukherjee , Arif Ahmed , Debi Prosad Dogra , Samarjit Kar , Partha Pratim Roy

Surface electromyography (sEMG) provides a direct neural interface for decoding muscle activity and offers a promising foundation for keyboard-free text input in wearable and mixed-reality systems. Previous sEMG-to-text studies mainly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Meghna Roy Chowdhury , Shreyas Sen , Yi Ding

Surface electromyogram (sEMG), as a bioelectrical signal reflecting the activity of human muscles, has a wide range of applications in the control of prosthetics, human-computer interaction and so on. However, the existing recognition…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Xiupeng Qiao , Zekun Chen , Shili Liang

We introduce LowKeyEMG, a real-time human-computer interface that enables efficient text entry using only 7 gesture classes decoded from surface electromyography (sEMG). Prior work has attempted full-alphabet decoding from sEMG, but…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Johannes Y. Lee , Derek Xiao , Shreyas Kaasyap , Nima R. Hadidi , John L. Zhou , Jacob Cunningham , Rakshith R. Gore , Deniz O. Eren , Jonathan C. Kao

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 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

Surface electromyography provides a practical way to infer human movement intention from wearable muscle recordings, but models trained under a single acquisition setting often lose reliability when the user, session, electrode layout, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhenghao Huang , Huilin Yao , Kaikai Wang

Surface electromyography (sEMG) is a technology to assess muscle activation, which is an important component in applications related to diagnosis, treatment, progression assessment, and rehabilitation of specific individuals' conditions.…

Electromyography (EMG) signals are obtained from muscle cell activity. The recording and analysis of EMG signals has several applications. The EMG is of diagnostic importance for treating patients suffering from neurological and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Vinay C K , Vikas Vazhayil , Madhav rao

We explore surface electromyography (sEMG) as a non-invasive input modality for mapping muscle activity to keyboard inputs, targeting immersive typing in next-generation human-computer interaction (HCI). This is especially relevant for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Kunwoo Lee , Dhivya Sreedhar , Pushkar Saraf , Chaeeun Lee , Kateryna Shapovalenko

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…

$\textit{Objective.}$ 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

This paper presents a novel approach, called AirScript, for creating, recognizing and visualizing documents in air. We present a novel algorithm, called 2-DifViz, that converts the hand movements in air (captured by a Myo-armband worn by a…

The application of psychophysiology in human-computer interaction is a growing field with significant potential for future smart personalised systems. Working in this emerging field requires comprehension of an array of physiological…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-09-05 Niklas Ravaja , Benjamin Cowley , Jari Torniainen

Surface electromyography (sEMG) is becoming exceeding useful in applications involving analysis of human motion such as in human-machine interface, assistive technology, healthcare and prosthetic development. The proposed work presents a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Karush Suri , Rinki Gupta

The discrimination of human gestures using wearable solutions is extremely important as a supporting technique for assisted living, healthcare of the elderly and neurorehabilitation. This paper presents a mobile electromyography (EMG)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Enea Ceolini , Gemma Taverni , Lyes Khacef , Melika Payvand , Elisa Donati

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

We designed and tested a system for real-time control of a user interface by extracting surface electromyographic (sEMG) activity from eight electrodes in a wrist-band configuration. sEMG data were streamed into a machine-learning algorithm…