{"title":"BCI based hybrid interface for 3D object control in virtual reality","authors":"Jinsung Chun, Byeonguk Bae, Sungho Jo","doi":"10.1109/IWW-BCI.2016.7457461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWW-BCI.2016.7457461","url":null,"abstract":"People attempts to apply the virtual reality (VR) technology in various fields recently, however, there are many limitations to apply the VR technology in existing interfaces in various fields such as 3D object control. To solve this problem, we propose a combination of eye-tracking and BCI technique to control 3D objects in a three-dimensional VR as an alternative interface. In our proposed interface, users select a virtual 3D object in VR by eye-gazing which is detect by the eye-tracking module of the system and manipulate the object by concentrating their mind via the BCI module. To evaluate the performance of our system, subjects perform the same experiments using the proposed system comparing to other existing interfaces. The result shows that the proposed interface has similar or better performance than other interfaces. This result suggests that our proposed interface can be used as an alternative interface of VR.","PeriodicalId":208670,"journal":{"name":"2016 4th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122645061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptation in motor imagery brain-computer interfaces and its implication in rehabilitation","authors":"Cuntai Guan","doi":"10.1109/IWW-BCI.2016.7457447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWW-BCI.2016.7457447","url":null,"abstract":"In BCI based stroke rehabilitation systems, motor imagery is detected and fed back to patients via various modalities, being visual, robotic, haptic, and so on. Higher rate of detecting motor imagery is desired for potentially better rehabilitation outcome, as it affects training intensity, patients' engagement and contingent feedback effect. It is a long-standing challenge in BCI research as how to develop a robust BCI system, which can produce highly accurate detection results across multiple sessions despite large variations and interferences in real-world environments. Although some of the factors causing performance to vary can be minimized or mitigated, by for example using wireless portable brain signal recoding equipment, restraining body movements etc, many other factors, especially endogenous ones, are unavoidable. Therefore, methods which are able to keep tracking variations in brain signal and adapting models for motor imagery detection are highly useful. In this talk, we will discuss various adaption schemes and their implications in stroke rehabilitation using EEG based braincomputer interface.","PeriodicalId":208670,"journal":{"name":"2016 4th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127556369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BCI classification based on signal plots and SIFT descriptors","authors":"Rodrigo Ramele, A. J. Villar, J. M. Santos","doi":"10.1109/IWW-BCI.2016.7457454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWW-BCI.2016.7457454","url":null,"abstract":"Brain Computer Interfaces are a challenging technology with amazing prospects but its push into mainstream assistive applications has not arrived yet. In this work a new method to analyze and classify EEG, Electroencefalography, signals, is proposed which is based on the extraction of visually relevant feature descriptors from images of the signal plots. This procedure has the advantage that the features which are used to classify are visually relevant and meaningful to a human observer, particularly to a physician, improving close collaboration and clinical adoption. Moreover, this may allow to tackle this demanding technology from a different perspective and improve the prospects of the BNCI, Brain/Neural Computer Interaction field.","PeriodicalId":208670,"journal":{"name":"2016 4th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124392989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating colour’s effect in stimulating brain oscillations for BCI systems","authors":"A. Szalowski, D. Picovici","doi":"10.1109/IWW-BCI.2016.7457449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWW-BCI.2016.7457449","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the quality and robustness of the electroencephalograph (EEG) signals elicited by various colour combinations using Steady State Visual Evoked Potential (SSVEP). The results from various colour flickers were compared against black and white flicker. The flickers have been designed and rendered in Adobe After Effects software. 10Hz flickers were tested using 3 subjects, 2 computers and Emotiv EPOC headset. Signal acquisition was performed using EmotivXavierTestBench application and its analysis was carried out using MATLAB with EEGLAB. All the colour flickers produced very strong and useable SSVEP signals.","PeriodicalId":208670,"journal":{"name":"2016 4th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129907141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neurodrawing: neurofeedback for enhancing attention by drawing","authors":"Jae-Hee Moon, Ki-Hee Park, Seong-Whan Lee","doi":"10.1109/IWW-BCI.2016.7457464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWW-BCI.2016.7457464","url":null,"abstract":"Neurofeedback is a type of biofeedback that measures brain signals that can be used as feedback to teach self-regulation of brain function. Neurofeedback commonly used treatment for patients and improves the ability for healthy people. Recently, neurofeedback widely uses in the brain-computer interface. This study proposes the neurofeedback system based on drawing for attention improvement. In addition, this study proposes attention inducement method using guideline. This system uses eye tracker for tracking user's eye gazes and EEG electrodes for computing attention score. Based on the neurofeedback drawing system, the user can train attention. The results revealed the neurofeedback drawing system can improve the user's attention and attention rate.","PeriodicalId":208670,"journal":{"name":"2016 4th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124984284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Space-time portraits of brain dynamics","authors":"Sang Wan Lee","doi":"10.1109/IWW-BCI.2016.7457458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWW-BCI.2016.7457458","url":null,"abstract":"Recent developments in the application of electroencephalography (EEG) signal-based brain-machine interfaces (BMI) provide support for the capabilities of EEG techniques to account for neural dynamics associated with simple task performance. However, the fundamental question remains as to whether EEG signal patterns relfect information sufficient for dictating underlying cognitive processes. Accurate identification imposes a substantial challenge to computation because such congnitive processes are known to involve a brain-wide correlation in both a spatial and temporal domain. Here we discuss a flexible computational framework for efficiently analyzing dynamics of the whole brain network. The proposed method reduces a heavy computational load by switching between covariance and gram matrices to compute eigenvectors, potentially enabling us to streamline analyses for revealing information pertaining to the present cognitive state.","PeriodicalId":208670,"journal":{"name":"2016 4th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126491544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of an asynchronous brain-computer interface for control of a virtual Avatar","authors":"Hye-Soo An, Jeong-Woo Kim, Seong-Whan Lee","doi":"10.1109/IWW-BCI.2016.7457463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWW-BCI.2016.7457463","url":null,"abstract":"Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) enables the human to control external devices by measuring brain activities. Among the various BCI paradigms, motor imagery (MI) is the natural one to accomplish the objectives of BCI. The asynchronous mode enables the user to perform the MI in a self-paced manner. In this study, we propose a design of the asynchronous BCI based on MI for control of a virtual avatar in BCI game. Filter bank common spatial pattern (FBCSP) is applied in proposed system to discriminate correctly and detect rapidly the user's different intention based on EEG analysis in real-time. In conclusion, we expect that our system would improve the performance of MI-based asynchronous BCI system.","PeriodicalId":208670,"journal":{"name":"2016 4th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)","volume":"10 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132817927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EEG-based decoding of declarative memory formation","authors":"Taeho Kang, Yiyu Chen, Doyeon Kim, S. Fazli","doi":"10.1109/IWW-BCI.2016.7457460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWW-BCI.2016.7457460","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the neural basis of long-term memory formation. Subjects are instructed to learn association pairs on a given day and their retention performance is recorded on the next. We perform statistical analysis as well as single-trial classification to investigate whether EEG is able to predict longterm memory formation in single trials. Our preliminary results confirm previous neurophysiological findings, and show that the prediction of long-term memory formation is possible.","PeriodicalId":208670,"journal":{"name":"2016 4th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131209407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brain-controlled devices: the perception-action closed loop","authors":"J. Millán","doi":"10.1109/IWW-BCI.2016.7457451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWW-BCI.2016.7457451","url":null,"abstract":"Future neuroprosthetics will be tightly coupled with the user in such a way that the resulting system can replace and restore impaired upper limb functions because controlled by the same neural signals than their natural counterparts. However, robust and natural interaction of subjects with sophisticated prostheses over long periods of time remains a major challenge. To tackle this challenge we can get inspiration from natural motor control, where goal-directed behavior is dynamically modulated by perceptual feedback resulting from executed actions. Current brain-computer interfaces (BCI) partly emulate human motor control as they decode cortical correlates of movement parameters -from onset of a movement to directions to instantaneous velocity- in order to generate the sequence of movements for the neuroprosthesis. A closer look, though, shows that motor control results from the combined activity of the cerebral cortex, subcortical areas and spinal cord. This hierarchical organization supports the hypothesis that complex behaviours can be controlled using the low-dimensional output of a BCI in conjunction with intelligent devices in charge to perform low-level commands. A further component that will facilitate intuitive and natural control of motor neuroprosthetics is the incorporation of rich multimodal feedback and neural correlates of perceptual cognitive processes resulting from this feedback. As in natural motor control, these sources of information can dynamically modulate interaction.","PeriodicalId":208670,"journal":{"name":"2016 4th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131951482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}