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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…

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The identification of intentionally delivered commands is a challenge in Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) based on Sensory-Motor Rhythms (SMR). It is of fundamental importance that BCI systems controlling a robotic device (i.e., upper limb…

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Surface electromyography (sEMG) is a technology to assess muscle activation, which is an important component in applications related to diagnosis, treatment, progression assessment, and rehabilitation of specific individuals' conditions.…

Surface electromyography (sEMG) is a well-established approach to monitor muscular activity on wearable and resource-constrained devices. However, when measuring deeper muscles, its low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), high signal attenuation,…

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Electroencephalography (EEG) signal based intent recognition has recently attracted much attention in both academia and industries, due to helping the elderly or motor-disabled people controlling smart devices to communicate with outer…

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Hands are the primary means through which humans interact with the world. Reliable and always-available hand pose inference could yield new and intuitive control schemes for human-computer interactions, particularly in virtual and augmented…

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,…

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Multi-channel surface Electromyography (sEMG), also referred to as high-density sEMG (HD-sEMG), plays a crucial role in improving gesture recognition performance for myoelectric control. Pattern recognition models developed based on…

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Surface electromyography (sEMG) recordings can be influenced by electrocardiogram (ECG) signals when the muscle being monitored is close to the heart. Several existing methods use signal-processing-based approaches, such as high-pass filter…

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Human-machine interaction, particularly in prosthetic and robotic control, has seen progress with gesture recognition via surface electromyographic (sEMG) signals.However, classifying similar gestures that produce nearly identical muscle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yanlong Chen , Mattia Orlandi , Pierangelo Maria Rapa , Simone Benatti , Luca Benini , Yawei Li

Surface electromyography (sEMG) signal-based activity recognition has attracted increasing research attention in recent years. To develop accurate sEMG signal-based activity recognizers, numerous approaches have been proposed. Some studies…

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Surface electromyography (sEMG) is a noninvasive technique widely used to control myoelectric prostheses and other human-machine interfaces. However, the high cost of commercial systems limits accessibility in academic and research…

Electromyography (EMG)-based gesture recognition has emerged as a promising approach for human-computer interaction. However, its performance is often limited by the scarcity of labeled EMG data, significant cross-user variability, and poor…

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Spatio-temporal signals arising from event-driven biological processes, such as surface electromyography (sEMG), exhibit asynchronous and highly structured activation patterns that are challenging to model using conventional discrete or…

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Electromyography (EMG) data has been extensively adopted as an intuitive interface for instructing human-robot collaboration. A major challenge of the real-time detection of human grasp intent is the identification of dynamic EMG from hand…

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In practical scenarios involving the measurement of surface electromyography (sEMG) in muscles, particularly those areas near the heart, one of the primary sources of contamination is the presence of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. To…

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Wearable exoskeletons hold transformative promise for restoring mobility across diverse users with muscular weakness or other impairments. However, their translation beyond laboratory environments remains limited by sensing systems that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Chenyu Tang , Yu Zhu , Josée Mallah , Wentian Yi , Luyao Jin , Zibo Zhang , Shengbo Wang , Muzi Xu , Ming Shen , Calvin Kalun Or , Shuo Gao , Shaoping Bai , Luigi G. Occhipinti

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

Surface electromyography (sEMG) is a widely employed bio-signal that captures human muscle activity via electrodes placed on the skin. Several studies have proposed methods to remove sEMG contaminants, as non-invasive measurements render…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Kuan-Chen Wang , Kai-Chun Liu , Ping-Cheng Yeh , Sheng-Yu Peng , Yu Tsao

Accurate and responsive myoelectric prosthesis control typically relies on complex, dense multi-sensor arrays, which limits consumer accessibility. This paper presents a novel, data-efficient deep learning framework designed to achieve…

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