Surface electromyogram (sEMG) signals are widely used in human-machine interfaces for gesture recognition and user identification, but existing models often struggle with generalization across different individuals due to subject-specific neuromuscular characteristics. This study introduced a disentanglement model to separate task-specific and subject-specific components from sEMG signals, thus improving the generalization and interpretability of gesture recognition and user identification systems. Experimental results demonstrate that disentangled task-specific components significantly improve the accuracy of both gesture classification and user identification across different subjects and days, outperforming conventional methods in the same scenario. Further analysis of the extracted components reveals that task-specific components capture consistent activation patterns for the same gestures across individuals. In contrast, subject-specific components reflect unique neuromuscular characteristics that can be used for user identification. Notably, subject-specific components show reduced similarity compared to task-specific components in inter-day scenarios, contributing to more accuracy decrease in user identification than in gesture recognition. These findings suggest that the disentanglement approach not only boosts classification performance but also provides deeper insights into the physiological mechanisms underlying sEMG signals. The model's ability to isolate and interpret different neuromuscular components holds promise for enhancing the robustness of sEMG-based applications in real-world settings, such as rehabilitation and user authentication.

Surface electromyogram (sEMG) has been widely used in hand gesture recognition. However, most previous studies focused on user-personalized models, which require a great amount of data from each new target user to learn the user-specific EMG patterns. In this work, we present a novel real-time gesture recognition framework based on multi-source domain adaptation, which learns extra knowledge from the data of other users, thereby reducing the data collection burdens on the target user. Additionally, compared with conventional domain adaptation methods which treat data from all users in the source domain as a whole, the proposed multi-source method treat data from different users as multiple separate source domains. Therefore, more detailed statistical information on the data distribution from each user can be learned effectively. High-density sEMG (256 channels) from 20 subjects was used to validate the proposed method. Importantly, we evaluated our method with a simulated real-time processing pipeline on continuous sEMG data stream, rather than well-segmented data. The false alarm rate during rest periods in an EMG data stream, which is typically neglected by previous studies performing offline analyses, was also considered. Our results showed that, with only 1 s sEMG data per gesture from the new user, the 10-gesture classification accuracy reached 87.66 % but the false alarm rate was reduced to 1.95 %. Our method can reduce the frustratingly heavy data collection burdens on each new user.

A growing number of new technologies are used in test development. Among them, automatic test generation, a promising technology to improve the efficiency of unit testing, currently performs not satisfactory in practice. Test recommendation, like code recommendation, is another feasible technology for supporting efficient unit testing and gets increasing attention. In this paper, we develop a novel system, namely HomoTR, which implements online test recommendations by measuring the homology of two methods. If the new method under test shares homology with an existing method that has test cases, HomoTR will recommend the test cases to the new method. The preliminary experiments show that HomoTR can quickly and effectively recommend test cases to help the developers improve the testing efficiency. Besides, HomoTR has been integrated into the MoocTest platform successfully, so it can also execute the recommended test cases automatically and visualize the testing results (e.g., Branch Coverage) friendly to help developers understand the process of testing. The demo video of HomoTR can be found at https://youtu.be/_227EfcUbus.