TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluation of surface EMG features for the recognition of American Sign Language gestures
AU - Kosmidou, Vasiliki E.
AU - Hadjileontiadis, Leontios J.
AU - Panas, Stavros M.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - In this work, analysis of the surface electromyogram (sEMG) signal is proposed for the recognition of American Sign Language (ASL) gestures. To this purpose, sixteen features are extracted from the sEMG signal acquired from the user's forearm, and evaluated by the Mahalanobis distance criterion. Discriminant analysis is used to reduce the number of features used in the classification of the signed ASL gestures. The proposed features are tested against noise resulting in a further reduced set of features, which are evaluated for their discriminant ability. The classification results reveal that 97.7% of the inspected ASL gestures were correctly recognized using sEMG-based features, providing a promising solution to the automatic ASL gesture recognition problem.
AB - In this work, analysis of the surface electromyogram (sEMG) signal is proposed for the recognition of American Sign Language (ASL) gestures. To this purpose, sixteen features are extracted from the sEMG signal acquired from the user's forearm, and evaluated by the Mahalanobis distance criterion. Discriminant analysis is used to reduce the number of features used in the classification of the signed ASL gestures. The proposed features are tested against noise resulting in a further reduced set of features, which are evaluated for their discriminant ability. The classification results reveal that 97.7% of the inspected ASL gestures were correctly recognized using sEMG-based features, providing a promising solution to the automatic ASL gesture recognition problem.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34047190924&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259428
DO - 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259428
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 17946747
AN - SCOPUS:34047190924
SN - 1424400325
SN - 9781424400324
T3 - Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings
SP - 6197
EP - 6200
BT - 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'06
T2 - 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'06
Y2 - 30 August 2006 through 3 September 2006
ER -