Feature–Classifier Pairing Compatibility for sEMG Signals in Hand Gesture Recognition under Joint Effects of Processing Procedures
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2022-11-02
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Gesture recognition using surface electromyography (sEMG) serves many applications, from human–machine interfaces to prosthesis control. Many features have been adopted to enhance recognition accuracy. However, studies mostly compare features under a prechosen feature window size or a classifier, biased to a specific application. The bias is evident in the reported accuracy drop, around 10%, from offline gesture recognition in experiment settings to real-time clinical environment studies. This paper explores the feature–classifier pairing compatibility for sEMG. We demonstrate that it is the primary determinant of gesture recognition accuracy under various window sizes and normalization ranges, thus removing application bias. The proposed pairing ranking provides a guideline for choosing the proper feature or classifier in future research. For instance, random forest (RF) performed best, with a mean accuracy of around 74.0%; however, it was optimal with the mean absolute value feature (MAV), giving 86.8% accuracy. Additionally, our ranking showed that the proper pairing enables low-computational models to surpass complex ones. The Histogram feature with linear discriminant analysis classifier (HIST-LDA) was the top pair with 88.6% accuracy. We also concluded that a 1250 ms window and a (−1, 1) signal normalization were the optimal procedures for gesture recognition on the used dataset.
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9 (11)
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634
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MDPI
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analysis; classification methods; electromyography; hand gestures; signal processing
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09715 - Menon, Carlo / Menon, Carlo