Publications by Vincent Alexandre Mendez

Evaluating Language Biases in Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering: The role of spatial attributes, language diversity, and the need for clearer evaluation

Devis Tuia, Christel Marie Tartini-Chappuis, Vincent Alexandre Mendez

Remote sensing visual question answering (RSVQA) opens new opportunities for the use of Earth observation imagery by the general public, by enabling human-machine interaction with natural language. Building on the recent advances in natural language proces ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2025

A Hardware-Efficient EMG Decoder with an Attractor-based Neural Network for Next-Generation Hand Prostheses

Solaiman Shokur, Mahsa Shoaran, Silvestro Micera, Vincent Alexandre Mendez, Mohammad Ali Shaeri

Advancements in neural engineering have enabled the development of Robotic Prosthetic Hands (RPHs) aimed at restoring hand functionality. Current commercial RPHs offer limited control through basic on/off commands. Recent progresses in machine learning ena ...

IEEE2024

Wearable electromyographic device and system and methods for motion decoding of body parts

Silvestro Micera, Vincent Alexandre Mendez, Fiorenzo Artoni

A computer-implemented method of training a neural network for generating upper or lower limb motion control signals to operate a virtual, robotic or prosthetic upper or lower limb, comprising providing or receiving, at a neural network, electromyographic ...

2024

Decoding Lower Limb Motor Attempts from EEG Signals in a Spinal Cord Injury Patient with Epidural Electrical Implant

Silvestro Micera, Vincent Alexandre Mendez, Leonardo Pollina

Epidural electrical stimulation (EES) has been employed to restore motor functions in the lower limbs of patients with spinal cord injuries (SCIs). However, non-invasive methods for controlling this stimulation have not yet been explored. This study aims t ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2024

Improving hand prosthesis control with advanced single-finger proportional decoding and robotic shared control

Vincent Alexandre Mendez

Myoelectric prostheses allow users to recover lost functionality by controlling a robotic device with their remaining muscle activity. Commercial devices usually use a two-recording-channel system placed on specific muscles to control a single degree of fr ...

EPFL2023

EMG-driven shared human-robot compliant control for in-hand object manipulation in hand prostheses

Aude Billard, Silvestro Micera, Vincent Alexandre Mendez, Iason Batzianoulis, Farshad Khadivar

Objective. The limited functionality of hand prostheses remains one of the main reasons behind the lack of its wide adoption by amputees. Indeed, while commercial prostheses can perform a reasonable number of grasps, they are often inadequate for manipulat ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

EMG Data Augmentation for Grasp Classification Using Generative Adversarial Networks

Silvestro Micera, Vincent Alexandre Mendez

Electromyography (EMG) has been used as an interface for the control of robotic hands for decades but with the improvement of embedded electronics and decoding algorithms, many applications are now envisaged by companies. Deep learning has shown the possib ...

IEEE2022

Language Transformers for Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering

Devis Tuia, Christel Marie Tartini-Chappuis, Vincent Alexandre Mendez, Sylvain Lobry

Remote sensing visual question answering (RSVQA) opens new avenues to promote the use of satellites data, by interfacing satellite image analysis with natural language processing. Capitalizing on the remarkable advances in natural language processing and c ...

IEEE2022

Deep Learning with Convolutional Neural Network for Proportional Control of Finger Movements from surface EMG Recordings

Silvestro Micera, Vincent Alexandre Mendez, Leonardo Pollina, Fiorenzo Artoni

The control of robotic prosthetic hands (RPHs) for upper limb amputees is far from optimal. Simultaneous and proportional finger control of a RPH based on EMG signals is still challenging. Based on EMG and kinematics recordings of subjects following a pre- ...

IEEE2021

Current Solutions and Future Trends for Robotic Prosthetic Hands

Solaiman Shokur, Silvestro Micera, Vincent Alexandre Mendez, Francesco Iberite

The desire for functional replacement of a missing hand is an ancient one. Historically, humans have replaced a missing limb with a prosthesis for cosmetic, vocational, or personal autonomy reasons. The hand is a powerful tool, and its loss causes severe p ...

ANNUAL REVIEWS2021

Shared human–robot proportional control of a dexterous myoelectric prosthesis

Aude Billard, Edoardo D'Anna, Nicolas Sommer, Silvestro Micera, Emanuele Formento, Saurav Aryan, Vincent Alexandre Mendez, Francesco Maria Petrini, Fiorenzo Artoni, Katie Zhi Zhuang

Myoelectric prostheses allow users to recover lost functionality by controlling a robotic device with their remaining muscle activity. Such commercial devices can give users a high level of autonomy, but still do not approach the dexterity of the intact hu ...

2019

Comparison of hemodynamic and structural indices of ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm as predicted by 2-way FSI, CFD rigid wall simulation and patient-specific displacement-based FEA

Vincent Alexandre Mendez

2018