Title
Unsupervised Adaptive Transfer Learning For Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential Brain-Computer Interfaces
Abstract
Recent advances in signal processing for the detection of Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials (SSVEPs) have moved away from traditionally calibrationless methods, such as canonical correlation analysis, and towards algorithms that require substantial training data. In general, this has improved detection rates, but SSVEP-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) now suffer from the requirement of costly calibration sessions. Here, we address this issue by applying transfer learning techniques to SSVEP detection. Our novel Adaptive-C3A method incorporates an unsupervised adaptation algorithm that requires no calibration data. Our approach learns SSVEP templates for the target user and provides robust class separation in feature space leading to increased classification accuracy. Our method achieves significant improvements in performance over a standard CCA method as well as a transfer variant of the state-of-the art Combined-CCA method for calibrationless SSVEP detection.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
2016 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS (SMC)
Signal processing,Computer vision,Feature vector,Canonical correlation,Visualization,Computer science,Transfer of learning,Brain–computer interface,Evoked potential,Artificial intelligence,Electroencephalography,Machine learning
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
1062-922X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicholas Waytowich1249.78
Josef Faller200.34
Javier O. Garcia3152.72
Jean Vettel4749.58
Paul Sajda565189.86