no code implementations • 23 Sep 2023 • Golara Ahmadi Azar, Qin Hu, Melika Emami, Alyson Fletcher, Sundeep Rangan, S. Farokh Atashzar
Hand gesture recognition (HGR) has gained significant attention due to the increasing use of AI-powered human-computer interfaces that can interpret the deep spatiotemporal dynamics of biosignals from the peripheral nervous system, such as surface electromyography (sEMG).
no code implementations • 15 May 2023 • Sarmad Mehrdad, S. Farokh Atashzar
Recently skew-t mixture models have been introduced as a flexible probabilistic modeling technique taking into account both skewness in data clusters and the statistical degree of freedom (S-DoF) to improve modeling generalizability, and robustness to heavy tails and skewness.
1 code implementation • 29 Nov 2022 • Mansooreh Montazerin, Elahe Rahimian, Farnoosh Naderkhani, S. Farokh Atashzar, Svetlana Yanushkevich, Arash Mohammadi
Additionally, the CT-HGR framework can perform instantaneous recognition using sEMG image spatially composed from HD-sEMG signals.
no code implementations • 13 Nov 2022 • Nethra Venkatayogi, Qin Hu, Ozdemir Can Kara, Tarunraj G. Mohanraj, S. Farokh Atashzar, Farshid Alambeigi
In this study, with the goal of reducing the early detection miss rate of colorectal cancer (CRC) polyps, we propose utilizing a novel hyper-sensitive vision-based tactile sensor called HySenSe and a complementary and novel machine learning (ML) architecture that explores the potentials of utilizing dilated convolutions, the beneficial features of the ResNet architecture, and the transfer learning concept applied on a small dataset with the scale of hundreds of images.
no code implementations • 27 Oct 2022 • Mansooreh Montazerin, Elahe Rahimian, Farnoosh Naderkhani, S. Farokh Atashzar, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Arash Mohammadi
At the same time, advancements in acquisition of High-Density sEMG signals (HD-sEMG) have resulted in a surge of significant interest on sEMG decomposition techniques to extract microscopic neural drive information.
no code implementations • 12 Oct 2022 • Sarmad Mehrdad, Farah E. Shamout, Yao Wang, S. Farokh Atashzar
This is infeasible for telehealth solutions and highlights a gap in deterioration prediction models that are based on minimal data, which can be recorded at a large scale in any clinic, nursing home, or even at the patient's home.
no code implementations • 3 Oct 2022 • Yunxiang Zhang, Benjamin Liang, Boyuan Chen, Paul Torrens, S. Farokh Atashzar, Dahua Lin, Qi Sun
Closing the gap between real-world physicality and immersive virtual experience requires a closed interaction loop: applying user-exerted physical forces to the virtual environment and generating haptic sensations back to the users.
no code implementations • 17 Oct 2021 • Elahe Rahimian, Soheil Zabihi, Amir Asif, Dario Farina, S. Farokh Atashzar, Arash Mohammadi
Advances in biosignal signal processing and machine learning, in particular Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), have paved the way for the development of innovative Human-Machine Interfaces for decoding the human intent and controlling artificial limbs.
no code implementations • 25 Sep 2021 • Elahe Rahimian, Soheil Zabihi, Amir Asif, Dario Farina, S. Farokh Atashzar, Arash Mohammadi
We propose a novel Vision Transformer (ViT)-based neural network architecture (referred to as the TEMGNet) to classify and recognize upperlimb hand gestures from sEMG to be used for myocontrol of prostheses.
1 code implementation • 30 Oct 2020 • Shahin Heidarian, Parnian Afshar, Nastaran Enshaei, Farnoosh Naderkhani, Anastasia Oikonomou, S. Farokh Atashzar, Faranak Babaki Fard, Kaveh Samimi, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, Arash Mohammadi, Moezedin Javad Rafiee
The newly discovered Corona virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been globally spreading and causing hundreds of thousands of deaths around the world as of its first emergence in late 2019.