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Conventional electromyography (EMG) measures the continuous neural activity during muscle contraction, but lacks explicit quantification of the actual contraction. Mechanomyography (MMG) and accelerometers only measure body surface motion,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Zijing Zhang , Edwin C. Kan

We propose, implement and evaluate a natural human-machine control interface for a variable stiffness transradial hand prosthesis that achieves tele-impedance control through surface electromyography (sEMG) signals. This interface, together…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-29 Elif Hocaoglu , Volkan Patoglu

Hand gesture recognition based on biosignals has shown strong potential for developing intuitive human-machine interaction strategies that closely mimic natural human behavior. In particular, sensor fusion approaches have gained attention…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Giusy Spacone , Sebastian Frey , Mattia Orlandi , Pierangelo Maria Rapa , Victor Kartsch , Simone Benatti , Luca Benini , Andrea Cossettini

We study the task of gesture recognition from electromyography (EMG), with the goal of enabling expressive human-computer interaction at high accuracy, while minimizing the time required for new subjects to provide calibration data. To…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Niklas Smedemark-Margulies , Yunus Bicer , Elifnur Sunger , Tales Imbiriba , Eugene Tunik , Deniz Erdogmus , Mathew Yarossi , Robin Walters

Electromyography (EMG) signals are obtained from muscle cell activity. The recording and analysis of EMG signals has several applications. The EMG is of diagnostic importance for treating patients suffering from neurological and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Vinay C K , Vikas Vazhayil , Madhav rao

Neuromotor decoding from upper-limb electromyography (sEMG) can enhance human-machine interfaces and offer a more natural means of controlling prosthetic limbs, virtual reality, and household electronics. Unfortunately, current sEMG…

Electromyography is an unexplored field of study when it comes to alternate input modality while interacting with a computer. However, to make computers understand human emotions is pivotal in the area of human-computer interaction and in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Muhammad Shihab Rashid , Zubayet Zaman , Hasan Mahmud , Md. Kamrul Hasan

Surface electromyography (sEMG) is a widely used muscle activity monitoring technique. sEMG measures muscle activity through monopolar and bipolar, multi-electrode electrodes. The surface electrodes are placed on the surface of the skin…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-25 Kukhokuhle Tsengwa , Stephen Paine , Fred Nicolls , Yumna Albertus , Amir Patel

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

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…

Surface Electromyography (sEMG) is a technology to measure the bio-potentials across the muscles. The true prospective of this technology is yet to be explored. In this paper, a simple and economic construction of a sEMG sensor is proposed.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-10-15 Abhishek Jha , Mrinal Sen

Objective: Multimodal hand gesture recognition (HGR) systems can achieve higher recognition accuracy compared to unimodal HGR systems. However, acquiring multimodal gesture recognition data typically requires users to wear additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Wentao Wei , Linyan Ren

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

Vision based human pose estimation is an non-invasive technology for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Direct use of the hand as an input device provides an attractive interaction method, with no need for specialized sensing equipment, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Nicholas Santavas , Ioannis Kansizoglou , Loukas Bampis , Evangelos Karakasis , Antonios Gasteratos

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made significant advances in recent years and opened up new possibilities in exploring applications in various fields such as biomedical, robotics, education, industry, etc. Among these fields, human hand…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Naveen Gehlot , Ashutosh Jena , Rajesh Kumar , Mahipal Bukya

Loss of hand function due to conditions like stroke or multiple sclerosis significantly impacts daily activities. Robotic rehabilitation provides tools to restore hand function, while novel methods based on surface electromyography (sEMG)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Tomislav Bazina , Ervin Kamenar , Maria Fonoberova , Igor Mezić

Egocentric 3D hand pose estimation and gesture recognition are essential for immersive augmented/virtual reality, human-computer interaction, and robotics. However, conventional frame-based cameras suffer from motion blur and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Luming Wang , Hao Shi , Jiajun Zhai , Kailun Yang , Kaiwei Wang

Gesture recognition based on surface electromyography (sEMG) has been gaining importance in many 3D Interactive Scenes. However, sEMG is easily influenced by various forms of noise in real-world environments, leading to challenges in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Weiyu Guo , Ziyue Qiao , Ying Sun , Hui Xiong

Predicting future human behavior from egocentric videos is a challenging but critical task for human intention understanding. Existing methods for forecasting 2D hand positions rely on visual representations and mainly focus on hand-object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Masashi Hatano , Ryo Hachiuma , Hideo Saito

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