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Natural muscles provide mobility in response to nerve impulses. Electromyography (EMG) measures the electrical activity of muscles in response to a nerve's stimulation. In the past few decades, EMG signals have been used extensively in the…

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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

Noninvasive human-machine interfaces such as surface electromyography (sEMG) have long been employed for controlling robotic prostheses. However, classical controllers are limited to few degrees of freedom (DoF). More recently, machine…

Surface electromyography (EMG) serves as a pivotal tool in hand gesture recognition and human-computer interaction, offering a non-invasive means of signal acquisition. This study presents a novel methodology for classifying hand gestures…

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We propose a fully automatic method for learning gestures on big touch devices in a potentially multi-user context. The goal is to learn general models capable of adapting to different gestures, user styles and hardware variations (e.g.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Quentin Debard , Christian Wolf , Stéphane Canu , Julien Arné

In sensitive scenarios, such as meetings, negotiations, and team sports, messages must be conveyed without detection by non-collaborators. Previous methods, such as encrypting messages, eye contact, and micro-gestures, had problems with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Hongxin Li , Jingsheng Tang , Xuechao Xu , Wei Dai , Yaru Liu , Junhao Xiao , Huimin Lu , Zongtan Zhou

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

Key properties of brain-inspired hyperdimensional (HD) computing make it a prime candidate for energy-efficient and fast learning in biosignal processing. The main challenge is however to formulate embedding methods that map biosignal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-01 Michael Hersche , José del R. Millán , Luca Benini , Abbas Rahimi

Electromyography (EMG) is extensively used in key biomedical areas, such as prosthetics, and assistive and interactive technologies. This paper presents a new hybrid neural network named ConSGruNet for precise and efficient hand gesture…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Hafsa Wazir , Jawad Ahmad , Muazzam A. Khan , Sana Ullah Jan , Fadia Ali Khan , Muhammad Shahbaz Khan

Hand gesture recognition is an important aspect of human-computer interaction. It forms the basis of sign language for the visually impaired people. This work proposes a novel hand gesture recognizing system for the differently-abled…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Subham Sharma , Sharmila Subudhi

Hand gesture understanding is essential for several applications in human-computer interaction, including automatic clinical assessment of hand dexterity. While deep learning has advanced static gesture recognition, dynamic gesture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Gianluca Amprimo , Alberto Ancilotto , Alessandro Savino , Fabio Quazzolo , Claudia Ferraris , Gabriella Olmo , Elisabetta Farella , Stefano Di Carlo

Tendon-driven robotic hands offer unparalleled dexterity for manipulation tasks, but learning control policies for such systems presents unique challenges. Unlike joint-actuated robotic hands, tendon-driven systems lack a direct one-to-one…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Sagar Verma

Advancements in Biological Signal Processing (BSP) and Machine-Learning (ML) models have paved the path for development of novel immersive Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI). In this context, there has been a surge of significant interest in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Soheil Zabihi , Elahe Rahimian , Amir Asif , Arash Mohammadi

Regressively-based surface electromyography (sEMG) prosthetics are widely used for their ability to continuously convert muscle activity into finger force and motion. However, they typically require additional kinematic or dynamic sensors,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Gang Liu , Ye Sun , Zhenxiang Wang , Chuanmei Xi , Ziyang He , Shanshan Guo , Rui Zhang , Dezhong Yao

Surface electromyography (sEMG) has gained significant importance during recent advancements in consumer electronics for healthcare systems, gesture analysis and recognition and sign language communication. For such a system, it is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-04 Rinki Gupta , Karush Suri

High-fidelity teleoperation of dexterous robotic hands is essential for bringing robots into unstructured domestic environments. However, existing teleoperation systems often face a trade-off between performance and portability:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Qianyou Zhao , Wenqiao Li , Chiyu Wang , Kaifeng Zhang

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

Recognition of surgical gesture is crucial for surgical skill assessment and efficient surgery training. Prior works on this task are based on either variant graphical models such as HMMs and CRFs, or deep learning models such as Recurrent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Daochang Liu , Tingting Jiang

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

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