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Surface Electromyography (sEMG) is widely studied for its applications in rehabilitation, prosthetics, robotic arm control, and human-machine interaction. However, classifying Activities of Daily Living (ADL) using sEMG signals often…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Ashraf Ali Kareemulla , Rakesh Kumar Sanodiya , Anish Chand Turlapaty , Surya Naidu

Surface electromyography (sEMG) provides an intuitive and non-invasive interface from which to control machines. However, preserving the myoelectric control system's performance over multiple days is challenging, due to the transient nature…

This study presents a transformer-based deep learning framework for the long-horizon prediction of full lower-limb joint angles and joint moments using surface electromyography (sEMG) and inertial measurement unit (IMU) signals. Two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Farshad Haghgoo Daryakenari , Tara Farizeh

Electrocardiogram (ECG) artifact contamination often occurs in surface electromyography (sEMG) applications when the measured muscles are in proximity to the heart. Previous studies have developed and proposed various methods, such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Kuan-Chen Wang , Kai-Chun Liu , Sheng-Yu Peng , Yu Tsao

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

The aim of this work was to identify six basic movements of the hand using two systems. Being an interdisciplinary topic, there has been conducted studying in the anatomy of forearm muscles, biosignals, the method of electromyography (EMG)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Christos Sapsanis

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Abu Saleh Musa Miah , Najmul Hassan , Md. Maniruzzaman , Nobuyoshi Asai , Jungpil Shin

Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals may get easily contaminated by muscle artifacts, which may lead to wrong interpretation in the brain--computer interface (BCI) system as well as in various medical diagnoses. The main objective of this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Souvik Phadikar , Nidul Sinha , Rajdeep Ghosh , Ebrahim Ghaderpour

High-Density surface Electromyography (HDsEMG) has emerged as a pivotal resource for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), offering direct insights into muscle activities and motion intentions. However, a significant challenge in practical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Mehran Shabanpour , Kasra Rad , Sadaf Khademi , Arash Mohammadi

In this work, we introduce an innovative approach to estimate the vital signs of multiple human subjects simultaneously in a non-contact way using a Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar-based system. Traditional vital sign…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Jewel Benny , Narahari N. Moudhgalya , Mujeev Khan , Hemant Kumar Meena , Mohd Wajid , Abhishek Srivastava

Although we can measure muscle activity and analyze their activation patterns, we understand little about how individual muscles affect the joint torque generated. It is known that they are controlled by circuits in the spinal cord, a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-19 Benedikt Feldotto , Cristian Soare , Alois Knoll , Piyanee Sriya , Sarah Astill , Marc de Kamps , Samit Chakrabarty

A common challenge in Bicep Curls rehabilitation is muscle compensation, where patients adopt alternative movement patterns when the primary muscle group cannot act due to injury or fatigue, significantly decreasing the effectiveness of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Ming Xuan Chua , Yoshiro Okubo , Shuhua Peng , Thanh Nho Do , Chun Hui Wang , Liao Wu

Non-contact vital sign monitoring has many advantages over conventional methods in being comfortable, unobtrusive and without any risk of spreading infection. The use of millimeter-wave (mmWave) radars is one of the most promising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Steven Marty , Federico Pantanella , Andrea Ronco , Kanika Dheman , Michele Magno

The concept of neuromuscular activity recognition using instantaneous high-density surface electromyography (HD-sEMG) images opens up new avenues for the development of more fluid and natural muscle-computer interfaces. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Md. Rabiul Islam , Daniel Massicotte , Francois Nougarou , Philippe Massicotte , Wei-Ping Zhu

Objective: A model is presented to evaluate the viability of using electrical impedance tomography (EIT) with a nerve cuff to record neural activity in peripheral nerves. Approach: Established modelling approaches in neural-EIT are expanded…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-05-09 J. Hope , F. Vanholsbeeck , A. McDaid

The study shows a potential to monitor functional recovery of a muscle by its natural frequency measurement. A novel approach is presented, in which vibrations of the muscle of interest are measured in a contactless manner using laser…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Agnieszka Tomaszewska , Milena Drozdowska , Piotr Aschenbrenner

Unregistered surface meshes, especially raw 3D scans, present significant challenges for automatic computation of plausible deformations due to the lack of established point-wise correspondences and the presence of noise in the data. In…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Thomas Besnier , Sylvain Arguillère , Mohamed Daoudi

We present a system for decoding hand movements using surface EMG signals. The interface provides real-time (25 Hz) reconstruction of finger joint angles across 20 degrees of freedom, designed for upper limb amputees. Our offline analysis…

In this paper, we present a putEMG dataset intended for evaluation of hand gesture recognition methods based on sEMG signal. The dataset was acquired for 44 able-bodied subjects and include 8 gestures (3 full hand gestures, 4 pinches, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Piotr Kaczmarek , Tomasz Mańkowski , Jakub Tomczyński

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