Time-frequency joint coding method for boosting information transfer rate in an SSVEP based BCI system

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ke Lin ◽  
Yijun Wang ◽  
Xiaorong Gao
Keyword(s):  
Transfer Rate ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Information Transfer Rate ◽  
Coding Method ◽  
Joint Coding ◽  
Bci System

scholarly journals Vibrotactile Displaying of Flight Attitude with Combination of Multiple Coding Parameters

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiangqiang Ouyang ◽  
Juan Wu
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Transfer Rate ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Recognition Accuracy ◽  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Vibrotactile Feedback ◽  
Sensory Environment ◽  
Information Transfer Rate ◽  
Haptic Displays ◽  
Coding Method

Vibrotactile displays have been reported effective in enhancing awareness of flight attitude for pilots and releasing other heavily loaded sensory channels. Although some work have been done on vibrotactile coding of flight altitude, there is lack of a systematic investigation into coding methods with combination of multiple coding parameters. In this paper, seven coding methods with combinations of multiple coding parameters (location, rhythm, intensity, and mode) were systematically studied to cue flight attitude for pilots with a vibrotactile vest. We conducted two psychophysical experiments in a static tactile sensory environment in which the attitude commands in the form of vibrotactile feedback are presented randomly, and quantitatively evaluated the effectiveness of the vest according to the users’ recognition accuracy, reaction time and information transfer rate. The results show that vibrotactile vest is effective to cue attitude information. The preferred coding method with combinations of location, rhythm and mode allowed users to perform with lowest reaction time and highest recognition accuracy and yield about 255 bits/min of information transfer rate. Overall, the presented work provides valuable insights and guidance for the design of haptic displays for vibrotactile aids for the pilots.

scholarly journals A Review of Hybrid Brain-Computer Interface Systems

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Setare Amiri ◽  
Reza Fazel-Rezai ◽  
Vahid Asadpour
Keyword(s):  
Transfer Rate ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Brain Computer Interface ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Computer Interface ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Information Transfer Rate ◽  
Bci System

Increasing number of research activities and different types of studies in brain-computer interface (BCI) systems show potential in this young research area. Research teams have studied features of different data acquisition techniques, brain activity patterns, feature extraction techniques, methods of classifications, and many other aspects of a BCI system. However, conventional BCIs have not become totally applicable, due to the lack of high accuracy, reliability, low information transfer rate, and user acceptability. A new approach to create a more reliable BCI that takes advantage of each system is to combine two or more BCI systems with different brain activity patterns or different input signal sources. This type of BCI, called hybrid BCI, may reduce disadvantages of each conventional BCI system. In addition, hybrid BCIs may create more applications and possibly increase the accuracy and the information transfer rate. However, the type of BCIs and their combinations should be considered carefully. In this paper, after introducing several types of BCIs and their combinations, we review and discuss hybrid BCIs, different possibilities to combine them, and their advantages and disadvantages.

A Dual Stimuli Approach Combined with Convolutional Neural Network to Improve Information Transfer Rate of Event-Related Potential-Based Brain-Computer Interface

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (10) ◽  
pp. 1850034 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Li ◽  
Mengfan Li ◽  
Huihui Zhou ◽  
Genshe Chen ◽  
Jing Jin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Transfer Rate ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Brain Computer Interface ◽  
Event Related Potential ◽  
Computer Interface ◽  
Generation Rate ◽  
Information Transfer Rate ◽  
Command Generation

Increasing command generation rate of an event-related potential-based brain-robot system is challenging, because of limited information transfer rate of a brain-computer interface system. To improve the rate, we propose a dual stimuli approach that is flashing a robot image and is scanning another robot image simultaneously. Two kinds of event-related potentials, N200 and P300 potentials, evoked in this dual stimuli condition are decoded by a convolutional neural network. Compared with the traditional approaches, this proposed approach significantly improves the online information transfer rate from 23.0 or 17.8 to 39.1 bits/min at an accuracy of 91.7%. These results suggest that combining multiple types of stimuli to evoke distinguishable ERPs might be a promising direction to improve the command generation rate in the brain-computer interface.

scholarly journals A low-cost auditory multi-class brain-computer interface based on pitch, spatial and timbre cues

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zacharias Vamvakousis ◽  
Rafael Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Subjects ◽  
Transfer Rate ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Auditory Stimuli ◽  
Stimulus Interval ◽  
Inter Stimulus Interval ◽  
Auditory P300 ◽  
Information Transfer Rate ◽  
Cord Injury

P300-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are especially useful for people with illnesses, which prevent them from communicating in a normal way (e.g. brain or spinal cord injury). However, most of the existing P300-based BCI systems use visual stimulation which may not be suitable for patients with sight deterioration (e.g. patients suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). Moreover, P300-based BCI systems rely on expensive equipment, which greatly limits their use outside the clinical environment. Therefore, we propose a multi-class BCI system based solely on auditory stimuli, which makes use of low-cost EEG technology. We explored different combinations of timbre, pitch and spatial auditory stimuli (TimPiSp: timbre-pitch-spatial, TimSp: timbre-spatial, and Timb: timbre-only) and three inter-stimulus intervals (150ms, 175ms and 300ms), and evaluated our system by conducting an oddball task on 7 healthy subjects. This is the first study in which these 3 auditory cues are compared. After averaging several repetitions in the 175ms inter-stimulus interval, we obtained average selection accuracies of 97.14%, 91.43%, and 88.57% for modalities TimPiSp, TimSp, and Timb, respectively. Best subject’s accuracy was 100% in all modalities and inter-stimulus intervals. Average information transfer rate for the 150ms inter-stimulus interval in the TimPiSp modality was 14.85 bits/min. Best subject’s information transfer rate was 39.96 bits/min for 175ms Timbre condition. Based on the TimPiSp modality, an auditory P300 speller was implemented and evaluated by asking users to type a 12-characters-long phrase. Six out of 7 users completed the task. The average spelling speed was 0.56 chars/min and best subject’s performance was 0.84 chars/min. The obtained results show that the proposed auditory BCI is successful with healthy subjects and may constitute the basis for future implementations of more practical and affordable auditory P300-based BCI systems.

SSVEP-P300 HYBRID PARADIGM OPTIMIZATION FOR ENHANCED INFORMATION TRANSFER RATE

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (01) ◽  
pp. 2050003
Author(s):  
Akshay Katyal ◽  
Rajesh Singla
Keyword(s):  
Transfer Rate ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Brain Response ◽  
Information Transfer Rate ◽  
User Intentions ◽  
Activation Rate ◽  
Optimal Protocol ◽  
Brain Computer Interfacing ◽  
Average Information ◽  
Two Hybrid

Hybrid brain–computer interfacing (BCI), recently, has been the epicenter of research in the area of rehabilitation engineering. The concept is based on the principle that the paradigm used for the BCI elicits one BCI marker in combination with one or more BCI modalities or other physiological signals. These paradigms elicit human brain response to successfully determine user intentions. Steady-state visually evoked potential (SSVEP) has been the favourite amongst researchers to combine with other BCI modalities such as P300, Motor Imagery (MI), etc. to develop assistive devices (ADs) based on hybrid BCI. This research paper is a record of a comparative study conducted between two hybrid BCI’s, namely hybrid BCI-1, hybrid BCI-2 and traditional SSVEP BCI. Both hybrid paradigms are similar in schematics but differ in the operational protocol. The study aimed to find the optimal protocol which greatly enhances the average information transfer rate (ITR) of a BCI-based AD. Hybrid BCI-1 showed lower classification accuracy (90.36%) and higher false activation rate (FAR) (3.16%) as compared to Hybrid BCI-2 (92.35% and 2.78%, respectively) as well as traditional SSVEP (93.38% and 2.73%, respectively). However, the average ITR of Hybrid BCI-1 (80.76 bits/min) was much higher than that of Hybrid BCI-2 (41.21 bits/min) and traditional SSVEP paradigm (36.34 bits/min). This led to the conclusion, that Hybrid BCI-1 is the most viable option for developing an AD.

SSVEP Recognition by Using Higher Harmonics Based on Music

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kun Chen ◽  
Fei Xu ◽  
Quan Liu ◽  
Haojie Liu ◽  
Yang Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transfer Rate ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Visual Evoked Potential ◽  
Evoked Potential ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Signal Classification ◽  
Recognition Time ◽  
Multiple Signal Classification ◽  
Computer Interfaces ◽  
Information Transfer Rate

Among different brain–computer interfaces (BCIs), the steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP)-based BCI has been widely used because of its higher signal to noise ratio (SNR) and greater information transfer rate (ITR). In this paper, a method based on multiple signal classification (MUSIC) was proposed for multidimensional SSVEP signal processing. Both fundamental and second harmonics of SSVEPs were employed for the final target recognition. The experimental results proved it has the advantage of reducing recognition time. Also, the relation between the duty-cycle of the stimulus signals and the amplitude of the second harmonics of SSVEPs was discussed via experiments. In order to verify the feasibility of proposed methods, a two-layer spelling system was designed. Different subjects including those who have never used BCIs before used the system fluently in an unshielded environment.

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