Unsupervised Common Spatial Patterns

The common spatial pattern (CSP) method is a dimensionality reduction technique widely used in brain-computer interface (BCI) systems. In the two-class CSP problem, training data are linearly projected onto direc tions maximizing or minimizing the variance ratio between the two classes. The present...

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Autores: Martín Clemente, Rubén, Olías Sánchez, Francisco Javier, Cruces Álvarez, Sergio Antonio, Antonio Zarzoso, Vicente
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/131369
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/131369
https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSRE.2019.2936411
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Common spatial patterns
Brain computer interfaces
Kurtosis
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Sumario:The common spatial pattern (CSP) method is a dimensionality reduction technique widely used in brain-computer interface (BCI) systems. In the two-class CSP problem, training data are linearly projected onto direc tions maximizing or minimizing the variance ratio between the two classes. The present contribution proves that kurto sis maximization performs CSP in an unsupervised manner, i.e., with no need for labeled data, when the classes follow Gaussian or elliptically symmetric distributions. Numerical analyses on synthetic and real data validate these findings in various experimental conditions, and demonstrate the interest of the proposed unsupervised approach.