On the Distribution of Muscle Signals: A Method for Distance-Based Classification of Human Gestures

Abstract

We investigate the distribution of muscle signatures of human hand gestures under Dynamic Time Warping. For this we present a k-Nearest-Neighbors classifier using Dynamic Time Warping for the distance estimate. To understand the resulting classification performance, we investigate the distribution of the recorded samples and derive a method of assessing the separability of a set of gestures. In addition to this, we present and evaluate two approaches with reduced real-time computational cost with regards to their effectiveness and the mechanics behind them. We further investigate the impact of different parameters with regards to practical usability and background rejection, allowing fine-tuning of the induced classification procedure.

Keywords

• EMG
• gesture recognition
• dynamic time warping
• classification
• signal processing