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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

By using a computer keyboard as a finger recording device, we construct the largest existing dataset for gesture recognition via surface electromyography (sEMG), and use deep learning to achieve over 90% character-level accuracy on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Michael S. Crouch , Mingde Zheng , Michael S. Eggleston

Surface electromyography (sEMG) is a non-invasive method of measuring neuromuscular potentials generated when the brain instructs the body to perform both fine and coarse locomotion. This technique has seen extensive investigation over the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Mingde Zheng , Michael S. Crouch , Michael S. Eggleston

Surface electromyography (sEMG) signals exhibit substantial inter-subject variability and are highly susceptible to noise, posing challenges for robust and interpretable decoding. To address these limitations, we propose a discrete…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Yuepeng Chen , Kaili Zheng , Ji Wu , Zhuangzhuang Li , Ye Ma , Dongwei Liu , Chenyi Guo , Xiangling Fu

Developing accurate hand gesture perception models is critical for various robotic applications, enabling effective communication between humans and machines and directly impacting neurorobotics and interactive robots. Recently, surface…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Costanza Armanini , Tuka Alhanai , Farah E. Shamout , S. Farokh Atashzar

We introduce LowKeyEMG, a real-time human-computer interface that enables efficient text entry using only 7 gesture classes decoded from surface electromyography (sEMG). Prior work has attempted full-alphabet decoding from sEMG, but…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Johannes Y. Lee , Derek Xiao , Shreyas Kaasyap , Nima R. Hadidi , John L. Zhou , Jacob Cunningham , Rakshith R. Gore , Deniz O. Eren , Jonathan C. Kao

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

We present a neuromuscular speech interface that translates silently voiced articulations directly into text. We record surface electromyographic (EMG) signals from multiple articulatory sites on the face and neck as participants silently…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Harshavardhana T. Gowda , Lee M. Miller

Deciphering language from brain activity is a crucial task in brain-computer interface (BCI) research. Non-invasive cerebral signaling techniques including electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) are becoming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Yiqian Yang , Hyejeong Jo , Yiqun Duan , Qiang Zhang , Jinni Zhou , Xuming Hu , Won Hee Lee , Renjing Xu , Hui Xiong

Surface electromyography (sEMG) non-invasively measures signals generated by muscle activity with sufficient sensitivity to detect individual spinal neurons and richness to identify dozens of gestures and their nuances. Wearable wrist-based…

Decoding neurophysiological signals into language is of great research interest within brain-computer interface (BCI) applications. Electroencephalography (EEG), known for its non-invasiveness, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness, has been…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-26 Yitian Tao , Yan Liang , Luoyu Wang , Yongqing Li , Qing Yang , Han Zhang

Deciphering the intricacies of the human brain has captivated curiosity for centuries. Recent strides in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology, particularly using motor imagery, have restored motor functions such as reaching, grasping,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Hanwen Liu , Daniel Hajialigol , Benny Antony , Aiguo Han , Xuan Wang

Decoding and expressing brain activity in a comprehensible form is a challenging frontier in AI. This paper presents Thought2Text, which uses instruction-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) fine-tuned with EEG data to achieve this goal. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Abhijit Mishra , Shreya Shukla , Jose Torres , Jacek Gwizdka , Shounak Roychowdhury

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.…

Brain activity translation into human language delivers the capability to revolutionize machine-human interaction while providing communication support to people with speech disability. Electronic decoding reaches a certain level of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Mostafa El Gedawy , Omnia Nabil , Omar Mamdouh , Mahmoud Nady , Nour Alhuda Adel , Ahmed Fares

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ming Wang , Haoxuan Qu , Qiuhong Ke , Wei Zhou , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

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

Robust and accurate decoding of gesture from non-invasive surface electromyography (sEMG) is important for various applications including spatial computing, healthcare, and entertainment, and has been actively pursued by researchers and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Adyasha Dash , Giulia Zappoli , Laya Das , Robert Riener

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

Airwriting Recognition is the task of identifying letters written in free space with finger movement. Electromyography (EMG) is a technique used to record electrical activity during muscle contraction and relaxation as a result of movement…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ayush Tripathi , Lalan Kumar , Prathosh A. P. , Suriya Prakash Muthukrishnan
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