In plain words: Cheap brain-wave headsets give fuzzy readings, so this system uses a memory network that follows signals over time and focuses on key parts, learning each person's patterns to steer a home robot. Real-world tests showed it ran quickly and accurately while using little energy.
Abstract · DeepBrain: Towards Personalized EEG Interaction through Attentional and Embedded LSTM Learning
The "mind-controlling" capability has always been in mankind's fantasy. With the recent advancements of electroencephalograph (EEG) techniques, brain-computer interface (BCI) researchers have explored various solutions to allow individuals to perform various tasks using their minds. However, the commercial off-the-shelf devices to run accurate EGG signal collection are usually expensive and the comparably cheaper devices can only present coarse results, which prevents the practical application of these devices in domestic services. To tackle this challenge, we propose and develop an end-to-end solution that enables fine brain-robot interaction (BRI) through embedded learning of coarse EEG signals from the low-cost devices, namely DeepBrain, so that people having difficulty to move, such as the elderly, can mildly command and control a robot to perform some basic household tasks. Our contributions are two folds: 1) We present a stacked long short term memory (Stacked LSTM) structure with specific pre-processing techniques to handle the time-dependency of EEG signals and their classification. 2) We propose personalized design to capture multiple features and achieve accurate recognition of individual EEG signals by enhancing the signal interpretation of Stacked LSTM with attention mechanism. Our real-world experiments demonstrate that the proposed end-to-end solution with low cost can achieve satisfactory run-time speed, accuracy and energy-efficiency.
Di Wu, Huayan Wan, Siping Liu, Weiren Yu, Zhanpeng Jin, Dakuo Wang
arXiv:2002.02086 · cs.HC, cs.LG, eess.SP · submitted Feb 6, 2020 · updated Apr 14, 2021
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Have they succeeded? The paper does not answer that. Unless I missed a link to a video where someone wears an EEG headcap and controls a real robot.