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Gesture recognition on wearable devices is extensively applied in human-computer interaction. Electromyography (EMG) has been used in many gesture recognition systems for its rapid perception of muscle signals. However, analyzing EMG…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-14 Youfang Han , Wei Zhao , Xiangjin Chen , Xin Meng

Electroencephalography (EEG) signals reflect activities on certain brain areas. Effective classification of time-varying EEG signals is still challenging. First, EEG signal processing and feature engineering are time-consuming and highly…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Xiang Zhang , Lina Yao , Xianzhi Wang , Wenjie Zhang , Shuai Zhang , Yunhao Liu

We propose a two-stage convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture for robust recognition of hand gestures, called HGR-Net, where the first stage performs accurate semantic segmentation to determine hand regions, and the second stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Amirhossein Dadashzadeh , Alireza Tavakoli Targhi , Maryam Tahmasbi , Majid Mirmehdi

Accurate finger force estimation is critical for next-generation human-machine interfaces. Traditional electromyography (EMG)-based decoding methods using deep learning require large datasets and high computational resources, limiting their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Farah Baracat , Giacomo Indiveri , Elisa Donati

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

The Brain-Computer Interface system is a profoundly developing area of experimentation for Motor activities which plays vital role in decoding cognitive activities. Classification of Cognitive-Motor Imagery activities from EEG signals is a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Pranali Kokate , Sidharth Pancholi , Amit M. Joshi

Biological neurons use spikes to process and learn temporally dynamic inputs in an energy and computationally efficient way. However, applying the state-of-the-art gradient-based supervised algorithms to spiking neural networks (SNN) is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Aref Moqadam Mehr , Saeed Reza Kheradpisheh , Hadi Farahani

Handwriting imagery has emerged as a promising paradigm for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) aimed at translating brain activity into text output. Compared with invasively recorded electroencephalography (EEG), non-invasive recording offers…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Hao Yang , Guang Ouyang

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

The ability to perceive and recognize objects is fundamental for the interaction with the external environment. Studies that investigate them and their relationship with brain activity changes have been increasing due to the possible…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-31 Jenifer Kalafatovich , Minji Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

In this paper, it is introduced a hand gesture recognition system to recognize the characters in the real time. The system consists of three modules: real time hand tracking, training gesture and gesture recognition using Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Arpita Vats

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), particularly Spiking Transformers, offer energy-efficient processing of event-based sensor data for healthcare applications. Yet current architectures are rigid: they are trained and deployed as static…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Alberto Ancilotto , Gianluca Amprimo , Stefano Di Carlo , Elisabetta Farella

In this paper, we propose an automated computer platform for the purpose of classifying Electroencephalography (EEG) signals associated with left and right hand movements using a hybrid system that uses advanced feature extraction…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Mohammad H. Alomari , Aya Samaha , Khaled AlKamha

The classification of different fine hand movements from EEG signals represents a relevant research challenge, e.g., in brain-computer interface applications for motor rehabilitation. Here, we analyzed two different datasets where fine hand…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-23 Giulia Bressan , Selina C. Wriessnegger , Giulia Cisotto

Humans have an exquisite sense of touch which robotic and prosthetic systems aim to recreate. We developed algorithms to create neuron-like (neuromorphic) spiking representations of texture that are invariant to the scanning speed and…

New and more natural human-robot interfaces are of crucial interest to the evolution of robotics. This paper addresses continuous and real-time hand gesture spotting, i.e., gesture segmentation plus gesture recognition. Gesture patterns are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Pedro Neto , Dário Pereira , Norberto Pires , Paulo Moreira

Action recognition is an exciting research avenue for artificial intelligence since it may be a game changer in the emerging industrial fields such as robotic visions and automobiles. However, current deep learning faces major challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Zihao Zhao , Yanhong Wang , Qiaosha Zou , Tie Xu , Fangbo Tao , Jiansong Zhang , Xiaoan Wang , C. -J. Richard Shi , Junwen Luo , Yuan Xie

Wearable health devices have a strong demand in real-time biomedical signal processing. However traditional methods often require data transmission to centralized processing unit with substantial computational resources after collecting it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Yuqi Ding , Elisa Donati , Haobo Li , Hadi Heidari

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

Accurately identifying hands in images is a key sub-task for human activity understanding with wearable first-person point-of-view cameras. Traditional hand segmentation approaches rely on a large corpus of manually labeled data to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Yubo Zhang , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti , Kris M. Kitani