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This paper proposes an interactive system for mobile devices controlled by hand gestures aimed at helping people with visual impairments. This system allows the user to interact with the device by making simple static and dynamic hand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Samer Alashhab , Antonio Javier Gallego , Miguel Ángel Lozano

Hand Gesture Recognition (HGR) is of major importance for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) applications. In this paper, we present a new hand gesture recognition approach called GNG-IEMD. In this approach, first, we use a Growing Neural Gas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Narges Mirehi , Maryam Tahmasbi

Gesture recognition is mainly apprehensive on analyzing the functionality of human wits. The main goal of gesture recognition is to create a system which can recognize specific human gestures and use them to convey information or for device…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-12-02 Harshith C , Karthik R. Shastry , Manoj Ravindran , M. V. V. N. S. Srikanth , Naveen Lakshmikhanth

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

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

Hand gestures recognition (HGR) is one of the main areas of research for the engineers, scientists and bioinformatics. HGR is the natural way of Human Machine interaction and today many researchers in the academia and industry are working…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Ankit Chaudhary , J. L. Raheja , Karen Das , Sonia Raheja

Electromyogram (EMG) pattern recognition can be used to classify hand gestures and movements for human-machine interface and prosthetics applications, but it often faces reliability issues resulting from limb position change. One method to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Andy Zhou , Rikky Muller , Jan Rabaey

EMG-based gesture recognition shows promise for human-machine interaction. Systems are often afflicted by signal and electrode variability which degrades performance over time. We present an end-to-end system combating this variability…

Surface electromyography (sEMG) records muscle activity during hand movement and can be decoded to recover detailed hand articulation. EMG and egocentric vision are complementary for hand sensing: EMG captures fine-grained finger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ziheng Xi , Jiayi Yu , Yitao Wang , Yanbo Duan , Jianjiang Feng , Jie Zhou

Surface Electromyography (sEMG/EMG) is to record muscles' electrical activity from a restricted area of the skin by using electrodes. The sEMG-based gesture recognition is extremely sensitive of inter-session and inter-subject variances. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 István Ketykó , Ferenc Kovács , Krisztián Zsolt Varga

Accurate and real-time hand gesture recognition is essential for controlling advanced hand prostheses. Surface Electromyography (sEMG) signals obtained from the forearm are widely used for this purpose. Here, we introduce a novel hand…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Ashwin De Silva , Malsha V. Perera , Kithmin Wickramasinghe , Asma M. Naim , Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne , Simon L. Kappel

Automated hand gesture recognition has been a focus of the AI community for decades. Traditionally, work in this domain revolved largely around scenarios assuming the availability of the flow of images of the user hands. This has partly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Ying Liu , Liucheng Guo , Valeri A. Makarov , Yuxiang Huang , Alexander Gorban , Evgeny Mirkes , Ivan Y. Tyukin

Electromyography signals can be used as training data by machine learning models to classify various gestures. We seek to produce a model that can classify six different hand gestures with a limited number of samples that generalizes well…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-01 Tekin Gunasar , Alexandra Rekesh , Atul Nair , Penelope King , Anastasiya Markova , Jiaqi Zhang , Isabel Tate

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

Brain-computer interfaces are being explored for a wide variety of therapeutic applications. Typically, this involves measuring and analyzing continuous-time electrical brain activity via techniques such as electrocorticogram (ECoG) or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Yiming Ai , Bipin Rajendran

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…

Surface electromyography provides a practical way to infer human movement intention from wearable muscle recordings, but models trained under a single acquisition setting often lose reliability when the user, session, electrode layout, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhenghao Huang , Huilin Yao , Kaikai Wang

Airwriting Recognition refers to the problem of identification of letters written in space with movement of the finger. It can be seen as a special case of dynamic gesture recognition wherein the set of gestures are letters in a particular…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Ayush Tripathi , Prathosh AP , Suriya Prakash Muthukrishnan , Lalan Kumar

This study investigated the use of forearm EMG data for distinguishing eight hand gestures, employing the Neural Network and Random Forest algorithms on data from ten participants. The Neural Network achieved 97 percent accuracy with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Ryan Cho , Sunil Patel , Kyu Taek Cho , Jaejin Hwang

Automatic surgical gesture recognition is fundamental for improving intelligence in robot-assisted surgery, such as conducting complicated tasks of surgery surveillance and skill evaluation. However, current methods treat each frame…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Xiaojie Gao , Yueming Jin , Qi Dou , Pheng-Ann Heng