Dynamic time warping-based transfer learning for improving common spatial patterns in brain-computer interface.

Journal: Journal of neural engineering
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Common spatial patterns (CSP) is a prominent feature extraction algorithm in motor imagery (MI)-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). However, CSP is computed using sample-based covariance-matrix estimation. Hence, its performance deteriorates if the number of training trials is small. To address this problem, this paper proposes a novel regularized covariance matrix estimation framework for CSP (i.e. DTW-RCSP) based on dynamic time warping (DTW) and transfer learning.

Authors

  • Ahmed M Azab
  • Hamed Ahmadi
  • Lyudmila Mihaylova
  • Mahnaz Arvaneh
    Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.