When dealing with electro or magnetoencephalography records, many supervised
prediction tasks are solved by working with covariance matrices to summarize
the signals. Learning with these matrices requires using Riemanian geometry to
account for their structure. In this paper, we propose a new method to deal
with distributions of covariance matrices and demonstrate its computational
efficiency on M/EEG multivariate time series. More specifically, we define a
Sliced-Wasserstein distance between measures of symmetric positive definite
matrices that comes with strong theoretical guarantees. Then, we take advantage
of its properties and kernel methods to apply this distance to brain-age
prediction from MEG data and compare it to state-of-the-art algorithms based on
Riemannian geometry. Finally, we show that it is an efficient surrogate to the
Wasserstein distance in domain adaptation for Brain Computer Interface
applications