Improving object segmentation by using EEG signals and rapid serial visual presentation

This paper extends our previous work on the potential of EEG-based brain computer interfaces to segment salient objects in images. The proposed system analyzes the Event Related Potentials (ERP) generated by the rapid serial visual presentation of windows on the image. The detection of the P300 sign...

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Autores: Mohedano, Eva, Healy, Graham, McGuinness, Kevin, Giró Nieto, Xavier|||0000-0002-9935-5332, O'Connor, Noel, Smeaton, Alan F.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/76579
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/76579
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11042-015-2805-0
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Digital video
Image processing--Digital techniques
Computational neuroscience
Brain-computer interfases
Image segmentation
Vídeo digital
Imatges -- Processament -- Tècniques digitals
Imatges -- Segmentació
Ordinadors neuronals
Neurociència computacional
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Processament del senyal::Processament de la imatge i del senyal vídeo
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::So, imatge i multimèdia::Creació multimèdia::Vídeo digital
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Sumario:This paper extends our previous work on the potential of EEG-based brain computer interfaces to segment salient objects in images. The proposed system analyzes the Event Related Potentials (ERP) generated by the rapid serial visual presentation of windows on the image. The detection of the P300 signal allows estimating a saliency map of the image, which is used to seed a semi-supervised object segmentation algorithm. Thanks to the new contributions presented in this work, the average Jaccard index was improved from 0.47 to 0.66 when processed in our publicly available dataset of images, object masks and captured EEG signals. This work also studies alternative architectures to the original one, the impact of object occupation in each image window, and a more robust evaluation based on statistical analysis and a weighted F-score.