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A Novel EMG-Based Hand Gesture Recognition Framework Based on Multivariate Variational Mode Decomposition.

Kun Yang¹, Manjin Xu¹, Xiaotong Yang¹

¹School of Biomedical Engineering, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, China.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)

|November 13, 2021

Summary

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This study introduces a new machine learning framework for recognizing more hand gestures using surface electromyography (sEMG) signals. The advanced method achieves high accuracy, improving potential applications in human-computer interaction and prosthetics.

Keywords:

MVMD hand gesture recognition sEMG separable convolution neural network two-stage framework

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Area of Science:

Biomedical Engineering
Machine Learning
Signal Processing

Background:

Surface electromyography (sEMG) records noninvasive muscle activity, crucial for human-computer interaction, prosthetics, and clinical therapy.
Current sEMG gesture recognition faces limitations in the number of recognizable gestures and accuracy, hindering practical adoption.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an extensible, lightweight, two-stage machine learning framework for multi-gesture recognition.
To enhance the accuracy and scope of sEMG-based hand gesture recognition.

Main Methods:

Proposed an extensible two-stage machine learning framework for multi-gesture recognition.
Applied multivariate variational mode decomposition (MVMD) to extract spatio-temporal features from multi-channel sEMG signals.
Utilized a separable convolutional neural network for signal modeling.

Main Results:

The proposed framework achieved an average accuracy of approximately 90% for recognizing 52 hand gestures across both stages.
Identified that low-frequency oscillations in sEMG signals contain key movement information.
Demonstrated superior performance of the MVMD algorithm in extracting low-frequency oscillations for second-stage classification compared to other methods.

Conclusions:

The developed lightweight framework effectively addresses the need for recognizing a larger number of complex hand gestures.
MVMD-based feature extraction significantly improves the accuracy of sEMG gesture recognition, particularly by leveraging low-frequency signal components.