Trustworthy Adaptation with Few-Shot Learning for Hand Gesture Recognition

Abstract

This work is motivated by potentials of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs)-based solutions in improving myoelectric control for trustworthy Human-Machine Interfacing (HMI). In this context, we propose the Trustworthy Few Shot-Hand Gesture Recognition (TFS-HGR) framework as a novel DNN-based architecture for performing Hand Gesture Recognition (HGR) via multi-channel surface Electromyography (sEMG) signals. The main objective of the TFS-HGR framework is to employ Few-Shot Learning (FSL) formulation with a focus on transferring information and knowledge between source and target domains (despite their inherit differences) to address limited availability of training data. The NinaPro DB5 dataset is used for evaluation purposes. The proposed TFS-HGR achieves a performance of 83.17% for new repetitions with few-shot observations, i.e., 5-way 10-shot classification. Moreover, the TFS-HGR with the accuracy of 75.29% also generalize to new gestures with few-shot observations, i.e., 5-way 10-shot classification.