XceptionTime: A Novel Deep Architecture based on Depthwise Separable Convolutions for Hand Gesture Classification

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Capitalizing on the need for addressing the existing challenges associated with gesture recognition via sparse multichannel surface Electromyography (sEMG) signals, the paper proposes a novel deep learning model, referred to as the XceptionTime architecture.

• The proposed innovative XceptionTime is designed by integration of depthwise separable convolutions, adaptive average pooling, and a novel non-linear normalization technique.
• At the heart of the proposed architecture is several XceptionTime modules concatenated in series fashion designed to capture both temporal and spatial information-bearing contents of the sparse multichannel sEMG signals without the need for data augmentation and/or manual design of feature extraction.
• In addition, through integration of adaptive average pooling, Conv1D, and the non-linear normalization approach, XceptionTime is less prone to overfitting, more robust to temporal translation of the input, and more importantly is independent from the input window size.