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Free-form gesture understanding is highly appealing for human-computer interaction, as it liberates users from the constraints of predefined gesture categories. However, the sole existing solution GestureGPT suffers from limited recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Zhuoming Li , Aitong Liu , Mengxi Jia , Yubi Lu , Tengxiang Zhang , Changzhi Sun , Dell Zhang , Xuelong Li

Recently, surface electromyography (sEMG) emerged as a novel biometric authentication method. Since EMG system parameters, such as the feature extraction methods and the number of channels, have been known to affect system performances, it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Ashirbad Pradhan , Jiayuan He , Ning Jiang

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

The hand gestures are one of the typical methods used in sign language. It is very difficult for the hearing-impaired people to communicate with the world. This project presents a solution that will not only automatically recognize the hand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 K. Manikandan , Ayush Patidar , Pallav Walia , Aneek Barman Roy

We present a method for EMG-driven teleoperation of non-anthropomorphic robot hands. EMG sensors are appealing as a wearable, inexpensive, and unobtrusive way to gather information about the teleoperator's hand pose. However, mapping from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Cassie Meeker , Matei Ciocarlie

Varying contraction levels of muscles is a big challenge in electromyography-based gesture recognition. Some use cases require the classifier to be robust against varying force changes, while others demand to distinguish between different…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Ali Moin , Andy Zhou , Simone Benatti , Abbas Rahimi , Luca Benini , Jan M. Rabaey

Although psychological research indicates that bodily expressions convey important affective information, to date research in emotion recognition focused mainly on facial expression or voice analysis. In this paper we propose an approach to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-02-21 Stefano Piana , Alessandra Staglianò , Francesca Odone , Alessandro Verri , Antonio Camurri

As eye-tracking becomes increasingly common in modern mobile devices, the potential for hands-free, gaze-based interaction grows, but current gesture sets are largely expert-designed and often misaligned with how users naturally move their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yaxiong Lei , Xinya Gong , Shijing He , Yafei Wang , Mohamed Khamis , Juan Ye

Intent inferencing in teleoperation has been instrumental in aligning operator goals and coordinating actions with robotic partners. However, current intent inference methods often ignore subtle motion that can be strong indicators for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Michael Bowman , Xiaoli Zhang

$\textit{Objective.}$ In this article, we present data and methods for decoding hand gestures using surface electromyogram (EMG) signals. EMG-based upper limb interfaces are valuable for amputee rehabilitation, artificial supernumerary limb…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Harshavardhana T. Gowda , Lee M. Miller

Objective: We present magnetomyograms (MMG) of TMS-evoked movement in a human hand, together with a simultaneous surface electromyograph (EMG) and electroencephalograph (EEG) data. Approach: We combined TMS with non-contact magnetic…

Electromyogram (EMG) signals recorded from the skin surface enable intuitive control of assistive devices such as prosthetic limbs. However, in EMG-based motion recognition, collecting comprehensive training data for all target motions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Itsuki Yazawa , Seitaro Yoneda , Akira Furui

This work aims to tackle the intent recognition problem in Human-Robot Collaborative assembly scenarios. Precisely, we consider an interactive assembly of a wooden stool where the robot fetches the pieces in the correct order and the human…

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

Human-robot collaboration (HRC) in the construction industry depends on precise and prompt recognition of human motion intentions and actions by robots to maximize safety and workflow efficiency. There is a research gap in comparing data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Charan Gajjala Chenchu , Kinam Kim , Gao Lu , Zia Ud Din

A promising effective human-robot interaction in assistive robotic systems is gaze-based control. However, current gaze-based assistive systems mainly help users with basic grasping actions, offering limited support. Moreover, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Zejia Zhang , Bo Yang , Xinxing Chen , Weizhuang Shi , Haoyuan Wang , Wei Luo , Jian Huang

In recent years, real-time control of prosthetic hands has gained a great deal of attention. In particular, real-time analysis of Electromyography (EMG) signals has several challenges to achieve an acceptable accuracy and execution delay.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-05 Reza Bagherian Azhiri , Mohammad Esmaeili , Mehrdad Nourani

Researchers have been developing Hand Gesture Recognition (HGR) systems to enhance natural, efficient, and authentic human-computer interaction, especially benefiting those who rely solely on hand gestures for communication. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Jungpil Shin , Abu Saleh Musa Miah , Md. Humaun Kabir , Md. Abdur Rahim , Abdullah Al Shiam

Hand gesture recognition allows humans to interact with machines non-verbally, which has a huge application in underwater exploration using autonomous underwater vehicles. Recently, a new gesture-based language called CADDIAN has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Sandipan Sarma , Gundameedi Sai Ram Mohan , Hariansh Sehgal , Arijit Sur

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