Unsupervised Cross-Subject BCI Learning and Classification using Riemannian Geometry

International audienceThe inter-subject variability poses a challenge in cross-subject Brain-Computer Interface learning and classification. As a matter of fact, in cross-subject learning not all available subjects may improve the performance on a test subject. In order to address this problem we propose a subject selection algorithm and we investigate the use of this algorithm in the Riemannian geometry classification framework. We demonstrate that this new approach can significantly improve cross-suject learning without the need of any labeled data from test subjects

EEG-Based User Reaction Time Estimation Using Riemannian Geometry Features

Riemannian geometry has been successfully used in many brain-computer interface (BCI) classification problems and demonstrated superior performance. In this paper, for the first time, it is applied to BCI regression problems, an important category of BCI applications. More specifically, we propose a new feature extraction approach for Electroencephalogram (EEG) based BCI regression problems: a spatial filter is first used to increase the signal quality of the EEG trials and also to reduce the dimensionality of the covariance matrices, and then Riemannian tangent space features are extracted. We validate the performance of the proposed approach in reaction time estimation from EEG signals measured in a large-scale sustained-attention psychomotor vigilance task, and show that compared with the traditional powerband features, the tangent space features can reduce the root mean square estimation error by 4.30-8.30%, and increase the estimation correlation coefficient by 6.59-11.13%.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1702.0291

The Riemannian Minimum Distance to Means Field Classifier

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