Title: Classification improvement using an unscented Kalman filter in brain computer interface systems

Authors: Wansu Lim; Yeon-Mo Yang

Addresses: Department of Electronic Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, Gyeongbuk, 730-701, South Korea ' Department of Electronic Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, Gyeongbuk, 730-701, South Korea

Abstract: In this paper, we propose an enhanced classification technique using an unscented Kalman filter (UKF) for brain computer interface (BCI) signal processing. Since the UKF estimates the state of a nonlinear dynamic system and parameters for nonlinear system identification, the UKF can significantly improve the performance of classification in BCI systems. As a result, we confirm the performance improvement when using the UKF in motor imagery classification in terms of accuracy, Kappa value, and confidence interval.

Keywords: brain computer interface; BCI; unscented Kalman filter; UKF; classification; statistical signal processing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCVR.2017.087735

International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics, 2017 Vol.7 No.6, pp.723 - 729

Received: 17 Jul 2015
Accepted: 02 Aug 2015

Published online: 01 Nov 2017 *

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