Learning Non-Euclidean Representations With SPD Manifold for Myoelectric Pattern Recognition

How to learn informative representations from Electromyography (EMG) signals is of vital importance for myoelectric control systems. Traditionally, hand-crafted features are extracted from individual EMG channels and combined together for pattern recognition. The spatial topological information between different channels can also be informative, which is seldom considered. This paper presents a radically novel approach to extract spatial structural information within diverse EMG channels based on the symmetric positive definite (SPD) manifold. The object is to learn non-Euclidean representations inside EMG signals for myoelectric pattern recognition. The performance is compared with two classical feature sets using accuracy and F1-score. The algorithm is tested on eleven gestures collected from ten subjects, and the best accuracy reaches 84.85%±5.15% with an improvement of 4.04%~20.25%, which outperforms the contrast method, and reaches a significant improvement with the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. Eleven gestures from three public databases involving
Ninapro DB2
,
DB4
,
and DB5
are also evaluated, and better performance is observed. Furthermore, the computational cost is less than the contrast method, making it more suitable for low-cost systems. It shows the effectiveness of the presented approach and contributes a new way for myoelectric pattern recognition.