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Electromyography (EMG) based hand gesture recognition converts forearm muscle activity into control commands for prosthetics, rehabilitation, and human computer interaction. This paper proposes a novel approach to EMG-based hand gesture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Parshuram N. Aarotale , Ajita Rattani

In this paper we propose a new method for training neural networks (NNs) for frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar mutual interference mitigation. Instead of training NNs to regress from interfered to clean radar signals as in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Christian Oswald , Mate Toth , Paul Meissner , Franz Pernkopf

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

Pose estimation and human action recognition (HAR) are pivotal technologies spanning various domains. While the image-based pose estimation and HAR are widely admired for their superior performance, they lack in privacy protection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Abdullah Al Masud , Shi Xintong , Mondher Bouazizi , Ohtsuki Tomoaki

Recent advancements in non-invasive health monitoring technologies underscore the potential of mm-Wave Frequency-Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar in real-time vital sign detection. This paper introduces a novel dataset, the first of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Ehsan Sadeghi , Karina Skurule , Alessandro Chiumento , Paul Havinga

Gesture recognition is a challenging problem in the field of biometrics. In this paper, we integrate Fisher criterion into Bidirectional Long-Short Term Memory (BLSTM) network and Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (BGRU),thus leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Chunyu Xie , Ce Li , Baochang Zhang , Chen Chen , Jungong Han

Material awareness can improve robotic navigation and interaction, particularly in conditions where cameras and LiDAR degrade. We present a lightweight mmWave radar material classification pipeline designed for ultra-low-power edge devices…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jannik Hohmann , Dong Wang , Andreas Nüchter

Minimally invasive surgery mainly consists of a series of sub-tasks, which can be decomposed into basic gestures or contexts. As a prerequisite of autonomic operation, surgical gesture recognition can assist motion planning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Dandan Zhang , Ruoxi Wang , Benny Lo

Advances in biosignal signal processing and machine learning, in particular Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), have paved the way for the development of innovative Human-Machine Interfaces for decoding the human intent and controlling artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Elahe Rahimian , Soheil Zabihi , Amir Asif , Dario Farina , S. Farokh Atashzar , Arash Mohammadi

We propose a novel appearance-based gesture recognition algorithm using compressed domain signal processing techniques. Gesture features are extracted directly from the compressed measurements, which are the block averages and the coded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Shaojie Xu , Anvesha Amaravati , Justin Romberg , Arijit Raychowdhury

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is the identification and classification of static and dynamic human activities, which find applicability in domains like healthcare, entertainment, security, and cyber-physical systems. Traditional HAR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Nuno Paulino , Mariana Oliveira , Francisco Ribeiro , Luís Outeiro , Pedro A. Lopes , Francisco Vilarinho , Sofia Inácio , Luís M. Pessoa

In a typical multi-standard military communication receiver, fast and reliable spectrum sensing unit is required to extract the information of multiple channels (frequency bands) present in a wideband input signal. In this paper, an energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-16 S. J. Darak , A. P. Vinod , E. M-K. Lai

We develop Few-Shot Learning models trained to recognize five or ten different dynamic hand gestures, respectively, which are arbitrarily interchangeable by providing the model with one, two, or five examples per hand gesture. All models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Niels Schlüsener , Michael Bücker

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

Internet of Things is rapidly spreading across several fields, including healthcare, posing relevant questions related to communication capabilities, energy efficiency and sensors unobtrusiveness. Particularly, in the context of recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Giulia Cisotto , Martina Capuzzo , Anna V. Guglielmi , Andrea Zanella

Radar simulation is a promising way to provide data-cube with effectiveness and accuracy for AI-based approaches to radar applications. This paper develops a channel simulator to generate frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) waveform…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Yuan Liu , Moein Ahmadi , Johann Fuchs , Mohammad Alaee-Kerahroodi , M. R. Bhavani Shankar

In this paper, we introduce a novel device architecture that merges memristive devices with light-sensing surfaces, for energy-efficient motion recognition at the edge. Our light-sensing surface captures motion data through in-sensor…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hritom Das , Imran Fahad , SNB Tushar , Sk Hasibul Alam , Graham Buchanan , Danny Scott , Garrett S. Rose , Sai Swaminathan

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

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar has emerged as a compact and powerful sensing modality for advanced perception tasks that leverage machine learning. It is particularly effective in scenarios where vision-based sensors fail to capture…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Stefan Hägele , Adam Misik , Eckehard Steinbach

mmWave FMCW radar has attracted huge amount of research interest for human-centered applications in recent years, such as human gesture/activity recognition. Most existing pipelines are built upon conventional Discrete Fourier Transform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Peijun Zhao , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Bing Wang , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham