Facial neuromuscular signal classification by means of least square support vector machine for MuCI

Hamedi, Mahyar; Salleh, Shaharuddin; Noor, Alias Mohd

doi:10.1016/j.asoc.2015.01.034

Cited by 15 publications

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“…The lowest accuracy reported in this study (94.18%) is higher than the best result reported for single TD features in previous works with ten facial expressions (93.1%) [42]. According to the results, it can be concluded that RMS is the best feature in terms of classification accuracy and contains invaluable information to discriminate different facial expressions EMGs.…”

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confidence: 61%

“…In this method, equality constraints are used to find the optimal solution by solving a set of linear equations instead of solving a quadratic optimization problem [81]. This classifier has already been examined for facial EMG classification and promising results were reported in [34], [39] and [42]. The LS-SVM model used in this paper is formed using RBF kernel where the regularization    and smoothing    2 parameters are set at 10 and 0.2 respectively while the multiclass LS-SVM is trained and encoded by the one-versus-all scheme.…”

Section: Least-square Support Vector Machines (Ls-svms)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, in previous studies this behavior has not been widely considered since only very few methods for either feature extraction or classification have been investigated. Classification accuracy has always been the most popular measure to assess the system performance; however, computational cost as another essential metric has only been considered in [29], [36][37][38][39] and [42].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Robust Facial Expression Recognition for MuCI: A Comprehensive Neuromuscular Signal Analysis

Hamedi

Salleh

Ting

et al. 2018

IEEE Trans. Affective Comput.

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This paper presents a comprehensive study on the analysis of neuromuscular signal activities to recognize eleven facial expressions for Muscle Computer Interfacing applications. A robust denoising protocol comprised of Wavelet transform and Kalman filtering is proposed to enhance the electromyogram (EMG) signal-to-noise ratio and improve classification performance. The effectiveness of eight different time-domain facial EMG features on system performance is examined and compared in order to identify the most discriminative one. Fourteen pattern recognition-based algorithms are employed to classify the extracted features. These classifiers are evaluated in terms of classification accuracy and processing time. Finally, the best methods that obtain almost identical system performance are compared through the Normalized Mutual Information (NMI) criterion and a repeated measure analysis of variance (ANOVA) for a statistical significant test.To clarify the impact of signal denoising, all considered EMG features and classifiers are assessed with and without this stage. Results show that: (1) the proposed denosing step significantly improves the system performance; (2) Root Mean Square is the most discriminative facial EMG feature; (3) discriminant analysis when the parameters are estimated by the Maximum Likelihood algorithm achieves the highest classification accuracy and NMI; however, ANOVA reveals no significant difference among the best methods with almost similar performance.

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Section: Least-square Support Vector Machines (Ls-svms)mentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Robust Facial Expression Recognition for MuCI: A Comprehensive Neuromuscular Signal Analysis

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Salleh

Ting

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IEEE Trans. Affective Comput.

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“…The same setup as presented in [10] was considered in this study. Facial EMGs were recorded via BioRadio 150(Clevemed) and they were sampled at 1000 Hz using a 12 bit A/D converter.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Their major advantage is that they are fast to calculate as no mathematical transformation is needed. Recently, we focused on analysing facial (SEMG) temporal characteristics for facial gesture recognition [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. In these studies, various types of time-domain features were evaluated to find the one that provided the most discriminating characteristic for recognizing different facial gestures.…”

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Time-frequency facial gestures EMG analysis using bilinear distribution

Hamedi

Salleh

Ismail

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications (ICSIPA)

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Electromyogram (EMG)-based facial gesture recognition has recently drawn the researchers' attention as a potential medium in different areas, particularly in assistive technology and rehabilitation. Efficient analysis of facial neuromuscular signals generated by different facial muscles can provide lots of information about underlying facial movement mechanisms which can be used to characterize different facial gestures as well as muscle abnormalities like in patients with muscular dystrophy or facial palsy. This paper investigated timevarying properties of facial EMGs in time-frequency domain. Significantly we studied changes of EMG spectrum across time while performing ten different facial gestures. The facial gestures were recorded from ten individuals through three bipolar pairs of surface electrodes. Time-Frequency analysis was carried out using B-Distribution to resolve EMG components in timefrequency domain and specify the signal frequency components that change over time. We observed that 1) there were no significant differences among facial gestures EMG time-varying spectrum distributions, 2) EMG power spectrum decreased over time in each epoch after about one second from the beginning of each movement, 3) the most significant power spectrum of facial EMGs was within 60-300 Hz.

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