Shurui Li , Liming Zhao , Chang Liu , Jing Jin , Cuntai Guan
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Abstract
Background:
The P300 speller is one of the most well-known brain-computer interface (BCI) systems, offering users a novel way to communicate with their environment by decoding brain activity.
Problem:
However, most P300-based BCI systems require a longer calibration phase to develop a subject-specific model, which can be inconvenient and time-consuming. Additionally, it is challenging to implement cross-subject P300 classification due to significant inter-individual variations.
Method:
To address these issues, this study proposes a calibration-free approach for P300 signal detection. Specifically, we incorporate self-distillation along with a beta label smoothing method to enhance model generalization and overall system performance, which can not only enable the distillation of informative knowledge from the electroencephalogram (EEG) data of other subjects but effectively reduce individual variability.
Experimental results:
The results conducted on the publicly available OpenBMI dataset demonstrate that the proposed method achieves statistically significantly higher performance compared to state-of-the-art approaches. Notably, the average character recognition accuracy of our method reaches up to 97.37% without the need for calibration. And information transfer rate and visualization further confirm its effectiveness.
Significance:
This method holds great promise for future developments in BCI applications.
期刊介绍:
The field of Pattern Recognition is both mature and rapidly evolving, playing a crucial role in various related fields such as computer vision, image processing, text analysis, and neural networks. It closely intersects with machine learning and is being applied in emerging areas like biometrics, bioinformatics, multimedia data analysis, and data science. The journal Pattern Recognition, established half a century ago during the early days of computer science, has since grown significantly in scope and influence.