Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
Apr 7, 2023
BACKGROUND: Machine-learning-based myocontrol of prosthetic devices suffers from a high rate of abandonment due to dissatisfaction with the training procedure and with the reliability of day-to-day control. Incremental myocontrol is a promising appro...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Mar 27, 2023
BACKGROUND: cervical spinal cord injury leads to loss of upper limb functionality, which causes a decrease in autonomy to perform activities of daily living. The use of robotic technologies in rehabilitation could contribute to improving upper limb f...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Mar 20, 2023
Hand detection and classification is a very important pre-processing step in building applications based on three-dimensional (3D) hand pose estimation and hand activity recognition. To automatically limit the hand data area on egocentric vision (EV)...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Mar 15, 2023
The need for contactless vascular biometric systems has significantly increased. In recent years, deep learning has proven to be efficient for vein segmentation and matching. Palm and finger vein biometrics are well researched; however, research on w...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Mar 14, 2023
In this paper, we present our investigation of the 2D Hand Gesture Recognition (HGR) which may be suitable for the control of the Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV). In real conditions, we deal with, among others, a complex background, changing lighting ...
Soft robotics
Feb 14, 2023
In this study, we investigated the effect of the presence or absence of fingernails on precision grasping using artificial anthropomimetic fingers. We hypothesized that fingernails improve precision grasping performance by increasing the friction coe...
IEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems
Feb 14, 2023
sEMG-based gesture recognition is widely applied in human-machine interaction system by its unique advantages. However, the accuracy of recognition drops significantly as electrodes shift. Besides, in applications such as VR, virtual hands should be ...
The Journal of hand surgery, European volume
Feb 9, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) in hand surgery is an emerging and evolving field that will likely play a large role in the future care of our patients. However, there remain several challenges to makes this technology meaningful, acceptable and usable ...
Computational intelligence and neuroscience
Feb 7, 2023
The deployment of photovoltaic (PV) cells as a renewable energy resource has been boosted recently, which enhanced the need to develop an automatic and swift fault detection system for PV cells. Prior to isolation for repair or replacement, it is cri...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jan 31, 2023
This paper tackles a novel and challenging problem-3D hand pose estimation (HPE) from a single RGB image using partial annotation. Most HPE methods ignore the fact that the keypoints could be partially visible (e.g., under occlusions). In contrast, w...