The paper investigates how to adapt recurrent neural networks for surface electromyography (sEMG) gesture recognition across different users and new gesture classes using continual learning (CL). Three CL strategies—experience replay, elastic weight consolidation (EWC), and naive fine‑tuning—were evaluated on the NinaPro DB1 dataset under domain‑ and class‑incremental drift, with experience replay achieving the highest final accuracy (83.3%) and the lowest forgetting (1.8–5.8%). The study also shows that training on shuffled, independently‑windowed segments and incorporating hand‑crafted time‑domain features can significantly improve per‑task accuracy, but only experience replay maintains this advantage under class‑incremental drift.
arXiv:2601. 04181v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reliable long-term decoding of gestures from surface electromyography (EMG) is hindered by signal drift caused by electrode displacement, muscle fatigue, and/or posture changes.
MyoFlow introduces a discriminative flow-matching framework for high‑density surface electromyography (HD‑sEMG) gesture recognition that addresses distribution shifts caused by electrode re‑donning and physiological variability. By using a domain‑conditioned rectified flow to transport encoded windows toward gesture anchors, the method enables zero‑shot prediction without a separate classifier head. On the Hyser dataset, MyoFlow outperforms the strongest diffusion‑based baseline by 4.24 % in cross‑session accuracy and 6.37 % in cross‑subject accuracy, and achieves 91.71 % mean zero‑shot accuracy and 97.39 % mean few‑shot accuracy on the CEMHSEY dataset.
arXiv:2606. 31349v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Surface electromyography (sEMG)-based gesture recognition has emerged as a promising technology for natural human-computer interaction.
arXiv:2607. 22779v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hand gesture recognition via surface electromyography (sEMG) is fundamental to prosthetic control.
arXiv:2609.25582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Public surface electromyography (EMG) datasets vary widely in electrode layout, channel count, frequency support, and size. Simply mixing them for pret...
arXiv:2607. 27568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recognition accuracy obtained during a recording session does not persist when a user puts on the electrodes again after the electrodes had previously been removed.
arXiv:2607. 03783v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-subject generalization remains a fundamental challenge in surface electromyography (sEMG)-based gesture recognition.
LiteEMG-FM is an efficient hybrid CNN‑Transformer foundation model designed for electromyography (EMG) sensing. It is pretrained on 16 diverse upper‑ and lower‑limb EMG datasets, enabling representations that generalize across users and datasets. The model incorporates a lightweight, always‑on 1D‑CNN wake‑up module that filters rest and non‑target activity, activating LiteEMG‑FM only for valid gestures, and is evaluated in full inference offloading, split inference, and full on‑device processing scenarios, showing superior performance over state‑of‑the‑art time‑series foundation models and supervised baselines, especially in zero‑calibration cross‑participant and data‑scarce conditions.
Pattern-recognition control promises a myoelectric prosthesis that responds to many intended gestures rather than one or two, but the promise has stayed in the laboratory. A recogniser trained on one person rarely transfers to the next, and useful performance usually demands a fresh round of labelled calibration from the end user.
arXiv:2603. 10046v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Wearable sensors in Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems increasingly support applications such as remote health monitoring, elderly care, and smart home automation, all of which rely on robust human activity recognition (HAR).
arXiv:2610.07713v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surface electromyography (sEMG) provides a wearable, noninvasive interface to neuromuscular activity for movement decoding and human-computer interacti...
arXiv:2607. 27565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pattern-recognition control promises a myoelectric prosthesis that responds to many intended gestures rather than one or two, but the promise has stayed in the laboratory.