학술논문

A Novel Surface Electromyographic Gesture Recognition Using Discrete Cosine Transform-Based Attention Network
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Signal Processing Letters IEEE Signal Process. Lett. Signal Processing Letters, IEEE. 31:266-270 2024
Subject
Signal Processing and Analysis
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Discrete cosine transforms
Feature extraction
Training
Shape
Discrete Fourier transforms
Transformers
Signal processing algorithms
Frequency-based attention
hand gesture recognition
MLP transformer
surface electromyographic (sEMG)
Language
ISSN
1070-9908
1558-2361
Abstract
This study introduces a novel frequency-based attention network (FANet) designed to acquire frequency information in surface electromyographic signals (sEMG) while mitigating potential high-frequency disturbances. The utilization of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) in dedicated attention modules, enables the conversion of sEMG features to the frequency domain and facilitating the extraction of spectral characteristics. This attention module replaces the self-attention module within the multilayer perceptron (MLP) based transformer, offering a streamlined means for internal frequency features analysis in deep learning models. In evaluation, we focus on the dominance of the “rest” gesture in available NinaPro DB4 and NinaPro DB5 datasets. Therefore we employ common metrics tailored to the class-imbalanced hand gesture classification task. Through comprehensive experiments and ablation studies, the results showed significant improvement in hand gesture recognition, with the DCT-based attention modules achieve accuracies of 78.70% and 89.64% in the NinaPro DB4 and DB5 datasets, respectively, while maintaining low computational cost with log-linear complexity.