For students pursuing Honors, BTP, MS or PHD
R & D projects in the field of human movement analysis using signal analysis and ML with applications in
Major Contributions
ML for human movement analysis
the importance of statistical features of EMG leading to improved classification of physical actions
the importance of energy features of EMG signals for improved classification of hand gestures
a hybrid CNN-Bi-LSTM architecture for classification of hand gestures based on EMG signals
Activities of daily living
Four surface EMG datasets for Indian subjects performing activities of daily living under different measurement conditions
Toward the classification of activities of daily living, demonstrated
the role of body posture and hand position
the role of rate of activity
the role of reaching distance
Strength Training
Demonstrated a compound Gaussian model for signal strength of surface EMG corresponding to strength training activities
Developed a sEMG dataset and an ML model for detection of fatigue onset during strength training activities
Developed a sEMG dataset for quantifiying muscle imbalance among subjects during strength training of arms
e-Sports
Demonstrated a correlation between the sEMG signals with e-sensitivity of a player within a gaming scenario
Developing a multi-modal dataset for studying player behavior in a competitive FPS gaming scenarios
Funded Projects
EMGNET- External funding from SERB for over 34 Lakhs for research on deep learning for human movement analysis
Thanks to IIITS for internal funding through a seed grant of 5 Lakhs
Six peer-reviewed journal publications including IEEE Transactions
Twelve conference proceedings including two papers at the flagship conference IEEE EMBC Annual Conference
Public datasets on human movement activities
Eight EMG datasets corresponding to human physical activities with most of them published in public data warehouses such as Kaggle
Multiple multi-modal datasets are in development and will soon be released publicly
Academic Milestones (By students at HMA lab)
9 honors degree requirements completed (7 already awarded)
2 MS degrees completed (awarded)
1 PHD degree awarded
2 Gold Medals at IIITS under ECE department
Professional/Career Milestones (By Alumni of HMA lab)
9 alumni (5 Honors, 1 B.Tech, 2 MS and 1 PhD) working at different firms in their respective core disciplines
4 alumni (Honors) pursuing higher education in India and Abroad
Workshops
WASDAM - International workshop on advanced statistical data analysis methods held in 2022