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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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SSVEP based EEG Interface for Google Street View Navigation

Raza, Asim January 2012 (has links)
Brain-computer interface (BCI) or Brain Machine Interface (BMI) provides direct communication channel between user’s brain and an external device without any requirement of user’s physical movement. Primarily BCI has been employed in medical sciences to facilitate the patients with severe motor, visual and aural impairments. More recently many BCI are also being used as a part of entertainment. BCI differs from Neuroprosthetics, a study within Neuroscience, in terms of its usage; former connects the brain with a computer or external device while the later connects the nervous system to an implanted device. A BCI receives the modulated input from user either invasively or non-invasively. The modulated input, concealed in the huge amount of noise, contains distinct brain patterns based on the type of activity user is performing at that point in time. Primary task of a typical BCI is to find out those distinct brain patterns and translates them to meaningful communication command set. Cursor controllers, Spellers, Wheel Chair and robot Controllers are classic examples of BCI applications. This study aims to investigate an Electroencephalography (EEG) based non-invasive BCI in general and its interaction with a web interface in particular. Different aspects related to BCI are covered in this work including feedback techniques, BCI frameworks, commercial BCI hardware, and different BCI applications. BCI paradigm Steady State Visually Evoked Potentials (SSVEP) is being focused during this study. A hybrid solution is developed during this study, employing a general purpose BCI framework OpenViBE, which comprised of a low-level stimulus management and control module and a web based Google Street View client application. This study shows that a BCI can not only provide a way of communication for the impaired subjects but it can also be a multipurpose tool for a healthy person. During this study, it is being established that the major hurdles that hamper the performance of a BCI system are training protocols, BCI hardware and signal processing techniques. It is also observed that a controlled environment and expert assistance is required to operate a BCI system.

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