Improving the performance of NIRS-based brain-computer interfaces in the presence of background auditory distractions

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 517-520

  Falk, Tiago H ^a   Paton, K ^a   Power, S ^a   Chau, Tom ^a  

^a University of Toronto   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory distraction; Brain computer interface; Hidden Markov model; Near infrared spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INFRARED DEVICES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

AUDITORY DISTRACTION; BACKGROUND NOISE; COMPENSATION STRATEGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; INTERFACE PERFORMANCE; NOISE-COMPENSATION; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; PERFORMANCE; SIMPLE++;

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 78049388316     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495643     Document Type: Conference Paper

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