Streamlined Gesture and Arm Motion Analysis via Direct EIT Voltage Classification
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Abstract
Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a noninvasive imaging technique that utilizes electrical voltage data to reconstruct cross-sectional images of the human body. EIT has diverse applications such as brain imaging and gesture recognition, making it a valuable tool for both medical diagnostics and human-computer interaction. One potential drawback of EIT is the power consumption and computational requirements for image reconstruction, which may limit real-time applications. This paper presents a novel approach that directly applies machine learning to raw EIT voltage data, bypassing the image reconstruction phase to achieve faster and highly accurate gesture classification. We introduce the Statistical Analysis, Information Theory, and Data-Driven (SID) pipeline, which analyzes raw EIT data using statistical techniques, information theory, and feature ranking, followed by classification with machine learning models. Two datasets were collected for this study: one for five gesture recognition (1193 samples) and another for distinguishing between arm flexion and extension (719 samples). The proposed SID pipeline was applied where the gesture recognition and arm flexion/extension feature set was reduced from 40 to 2 and 1, respectively, and XGBoost was used for classification and achieved an accuracy of 90.38% and 100.00%, respectively. The proposed method demonstrated high accuracy in both tasks while using a reduced feature set. This is in addition to by-passing the image reconstruction for EIT, further enhancing computational efficiency and reduced power consumption, highlighting the potential of this approach for real-time applications.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
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Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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