Title
Time-frequency facial gestures EMG analysis using bilinear distribution
Abstract
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 time-varying 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 time-frequency 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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICSIPA.2015.7412184
2015 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications (ICSIPA)
Keywords
Field
DocType
electromyogram,facial gesture,bilinear time-frequency distribution
Palsy,Computer science,Gesture,Gesture recognition,Facial muscles,Spectral density,Artificial intelligence,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Electromyography,Speech recognition,Time–frequency analysis,Bilinear time–frequency distribution
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
6
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mahyar Hamedi1183.84
S. Hussain2479.46
Kamarulafizam, I.330.75
Alias Mohd Noor4132.38
Mehdi Astaraki521.42
Hossein Aslian610.69