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The recent advancement in technology breaks the barriers to communication between users and computers. The communication between humans and computers includes emotion and gesture recognition. Emotions can be recognized on the face of humans…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Heena , Sandeep Ranjan

Surface electromyography (sEMG) signals show promise for effective human-machine interfaces, particularly in rehabilitation and prosthetics. However, challenges remain in developing systems that respond quickly to user intent, produce…

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

Human-machine interaction is gaining traction in rehabilitation tasks, such as controlling prosthetic hands or robotic arms. Gesture recognition exploiting surface electromyographic (sEMG) signals is one of the most promising approaches,…

Recognizing an activity with a single reference sample using metric learning approaches is a promising research field. The majority of few-shot methods focus on object recognition or face-identification. We propose a metric learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Raphael Memmesheimer , Nick Theisen , Dietrich Paulus

Surface electromyography (sEMG) and high-density sEMG (HD-sEMG) biosignals have been extensively investigated for myoelectric control of prosthetic devices, neurorobotics, and more recently human-computer interfaces because of their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Qin Hu , Golara Ahmadi Azar , Alyson Fletcher , Sundeep Rangan , S. Farokh Atashzar

sEMG pattern recognition algorithms have been explored extensively in decoding movement intent, yet are known to be vulnerable to changing recording conditions, exhibiting significant drops in performance across subjects, and even across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Joao Pereira , Dimitrios Chalatsis , Balint Hodossy , Dario Farina

Surface electromyography (sEMG) at the wrists could enable natural, keyboard-free text entry, yet the state-of-the-art emg2qwerty baseline still misrecognizes $51.8\%$ of characters in the zero-shot setting on unseen users and $7.0\%$ after…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Nima Hadidi , Jason Chan , Ebrahim Feghhi , Jonathan C. Kao

Scientific document representation learning provides powerful embeddings for various tasks, while current methods face challenges across three approaches. 1) Contrastive training with citation-structural signals underutilizes citation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Zheng Dou , Deqing Wang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Jian Ren , Yanlin Hu

Current electromyography (EMG) pattern recognition (PR) models have been shown to generalize poorly in unconstrained environments, setting back their adoption in applications such as hand gesture control. This problem is often due to…

Using the face as a biometric identity trait is motivated by the contactless nature of the capture process and the high accuracy of the recognition algorithms. After the current COVID-19 pandemic, wearing a face mask has been imposed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

Surface electromyography (sEMG) signals hold significant potential for gesture recognition and robust prosthetic hand development. However, sEMG signals are affected by various physiological and dynamic factors, including forearm…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-27 Umme Rumman , Arifa Ferdousi , Bipin Saha , Md. Sazzad Hossain , Md. Johirul Islam , Shamim Ahmad , Mamun Bin Ibne Reaz , Md. Rezaul Islam

Handwriting is one of the most important means of daily communication. Although the problem of handwriting recognition has been considered for more than 60 years there are still many open issues, especially in the task of unconstrained…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Firoj Parwej

Cross-lingual Speech Emotion Recognition (CLSER) aims to identify emotional states in unseen languages. However, existing methods heavily rely on the semantic synchrony of complete labels and static feature stability, hindering low-resource…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Ya Zhao , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang

Gesture recognition with electromyography (EMG) is a complex problem influenced by gesture sets, electrode count and placement, and machine learning parameters (e.g., features, classifiers). Most existing toolkits focus on streamlining…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Anand Kumar , Antony Albert Raj Irudayaraj , Ishita Chandra , Adwait Sharma , Aditya Shekhar Nittala

Surface electromyography (sEMG) non-invasively measures signals generated by muscle activity with sufficient sensitivity to detect individual spinal neurons and richness to identify dozens of gestures and their nuances. Wearable wrist-based…

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

Developing accurate hand gesture perception models is critical for various robotic applications, enabling effective communication between humans and machines and directly impacting neurorobotics and interactive robots. Recently, surface…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Costanza Armanini , Tuka Alhanai , Farah E. Shamout , S. Farokh Atashzar

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

Cross-modal representation learning learns a shared embedding between two or more modalities to improve performance in a given task compared to using only one of the modalities. Cross-modal representation learning from different data types…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Felix Ott , David Rügamer , Lucas Heublein , Bernd Bischl , Christopher Mutschler