Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) are an interesting emerging technology that is driven by the motivation to develop an effective communication interface translating human intentions into a control signal for devices like computers or neuroprostheses. If this can be done bypassing the usual human output pathways like peripheral nerves and muscles it can ultimately become a valuable tool for paral...

Common spatial pattern (CSP) is becoming a standard way to combine linearly multi-channel EEG data in order to increase discrimination between two motor imagery tasks. We demonstrate in this article that the use of robust estimates allows improving the quality of CSP decomposition and CSP-based BCI. Furthermore, a scheme for electrode subset selection is proposed. It is shown that CSP with such...

Common spatial pattern (CSP) is very successful in constructing spatial filters for detecting event-related synchronization and event-related desynchronization. In statistics, a CSP filter can optimally separate the motor-imagery-related components. However, for a single trail, the EEG features extracted after a CSP filter still include features not related to motor imagery. In this study, we i...

Common spatial pattern (CSP) is widely used for constructing spatial filters to extract features for motor-imagery-based BCI. One main parameter in CSP-based classification is the number of spatial filters used. An automatic method relying on Rayleigh quotient is presented to estimate its optimal value for each subject. Based on an existing dataset, we validate the contribution of the proposed ...

The Common Spatial Pattern (CSP) algorithm is a highly successful method for efficiently calculating spatial filters for brain signal classification. Spatial filtering can improve classification performance considerably, but demands that a large number of electrodes be mounted, which is inconvenient in day-to-day BCI usage. The CSP algorithm is also known for its tendency to overfit, i.e. to le...

In interferometric optical sensors, phase information is extracted from the modulated light intensity. case of free-standing interferometers, operating through far field interferogram, multiplex detection not trivial. Multi-pinhole or multi-microdisk interferometry are examples common-path interferometers that allow detection. Thereby an unambiguous interference pattern required, with no overla...