PGUDA: Pressure-Guided Unsupervised Domain Adaptation with Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation for sEMG-Based Gesture Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31349v1
• Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:45:55 GMT
• Title: PGUDA: Pressure-Guided Unsupervised Domain Adaptation with Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation for sEMG-Based Gesture Recognition
• Abstract summary: Surface electromyography (sEMG)-based gesture recognition has emerged as a promising technology for natural human-computer interaction.<n>This paper proposes a novel Pressure-Guided Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (PGUDA) framework.<n>A teacher network trained on pressure signals guides an sEMG student network on unlabeled target domains.
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• Abstract: Surface electromyography (sEMG)-based gesture recognition has emerged as a promising technology for natural human-computer interaction. However, its practical deployment remains challenging due to severe performance degradation caused by feature distribution discrepancies across different subjects and recording sessions. Although domain adaptation (DA) techniques are commonly employed to mitigate such discrepancies, conventional methods often struggle to effectively aligning sEMG features, primarily due to their inherent stochasticity and the scarcity of labeled data. To address these limitations, this paper proposes a novel Pressure-Guided Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (PGUDA) framework, which leverages the robustness and stability of pressure signals to introduce a cross-modal knowledge distillation strategy that transfers consistent physical semantics across modalities. Specifically, a teacher network trained on pressure signals guides an sEMG student network on unlabeled target domains, thereby regularizing the representation learning process with transferable and modality-invariant knowledge. Extensive experiments conducted on a self-collected multimodal dataset involving eleven subjects validate the effectiveness of the proposed PGUDA framework. The results demonstrate that our proposed PGUDA achieves leading performance in both cross-subject and cross-session classification tasks, achieving average accuracies of 58.08% and substantially outperforming existing DA approaches. Notably, PGUDA exhibits remarkable label efficiency: it attains classification accuracy comparable to fully supervised benchmarks while requiring only 5% of labeled data for teacher network training. This framework offers a robust and data-efficient solution that can significantly reduce the calibration burden in practical sEMG-based gesture recognition systems.

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