Real-time voice activity detection for ECoG-based speech brain machine interfaces

International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, DSP

Volumn 2014-January, Issue , 2014, Pages 862-865

  Kanas, Vasileios G ^a   Mporas, Iosif ^b   Benz, Heather L ^c   Sgarbas, Kyriakos N ^a   Bezerianos, Anastasios ^d,e   Crone, Nathan E ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering TEI of Western Greece ^*  (Greece)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain machine interfaces (BMIs); Electrocorticography (ECoG); Time frequency analysis; Voice activity detection

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA MINING; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

BRAIN MACHINE INTERFACE; BRAIN MACHINE INTERFACE (BMIS); ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY (ECOG); FEATURE EXTRACTION AND CLASSIFICATION; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; TIME-FREQUENCY METHODS; TIME-FREQUENCY REPRESENTATIONS; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84940747522     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDSP.2014.6900790     Document Type: Conference Paper

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