On the performance comparison of using checkerboard and flash ball visual stimulators for SSVEP-based BCI system

Jannipa Saetang, Yunyong Punsawad, Yodchanan Wongsawat

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Abstract

Searching for the visual stimulators that can reduce eye-fatigue and enhance the performance of the steady state visual evoked potential (SSVEP)-based brain computer interface (BCI) system is one of the challenging problem in BCI research. In this paper, we compare the multi-command selection performance of the two visual stimulators, i.e. the proposed flash ball and the conventional checkerboard patterns, on the liquid crystal display (LCD) screen. Each visual stimulator consists of 12 commands with different flickering frequencies. These visual stimulators are evaluated with four subjects. Fast Fourier transform FFT is used to simply extract the features of interest. The results show that, by employing the flash ball pattern, the average accuracy is 76.67% which is higher than 60% accuracy of the checkerboard pattern.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWorld Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
Pages1549-1552
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
EventWorld Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering - Beijing, China
Duration: 26 May 201231 May 2012

Publication series

NameIFMBE Proceedings
Volume39 IFMBE
ISSN (Print)1680-0737

Conference

ConferenceWorld Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period26/05/1231/05/12

Keywords

  • Brain computer interface (BCI)
  • Steady state visual evoke potential (SSVEP)
  • Visual stimulator

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