Vowel classification of imagined speech in an electroencephalogram using the deep belief network
- Authors
- Lee, T.-J.; Sim, K.-B.
- Issue Date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
- Keywords
- Deep belief network; Electroencephalogram; Imagined speech; Vowel recognition
- Citation
- Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems, v.21, no.1, pp 59 - 64
- Pages
- 6
- Journal Title
- Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
- Volume
- 21
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 59
- End Page
- 64
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/11307
- DOI
- 10.5302/J.ICROS.2015.14.0073
- ISSN
- 1976-5622
- Abstract
- In this paper, we found the usefulness of the deep belief network (DBN) in the fields of brain-computer interface (BCI), especially in relation to imagined speech. In recent years, the growth of interest in the BCI field has led to the development of a number of useful applications, such as robot control, game interfaces, exoskeleton limbs, and so on. However, while imagined speech, which could be used for communication or military purpose devices, is one of the most exciting BCI applications, there are some problems in implementing the system. In the previous paper, we already handled some of the issues of imagined speech when using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), although it required complementation for multi class classification problems. In view of this point, this paper could provide a suitable solution for vowel classification for imagined speech. We used the DBN algorithm, which is known as a deep learning algorithm for multi-class vowel classification, and selected four vowel pronunciations:, /a/, /i/, /o/, /u/ from IPA. For the experiment, we obtained the required 32 channel raw electroencephalogram (EEG) data from three male subjects, and electrodes were placed on the scalp of the frontal lobe and both temporal lobes which are related to thinking and verbal function. Eigenvalues of the covariance matrix of the EEG data were used as the feature vector of each vowel. In the analysis, we provided the classification results of the back propagation artificial neural network (BP-ANN) for making a comparison with DBN. As a result, the classification results from the BP-ANN were 52.04%, and the DBN was 87.96%. This means the DBN showed 35.92% better classification results in multi class imagined speech classification. In addition, the DBN spent much less time in whole computation time. In conclusion, the DBN algorithm is efficient in BCI system implementation. © ICROS 2015.
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