Transfer Learning in Brain-Computer Interfaces with Adversarial Variational Autoencoders

We introduce adversarial neural networks for representation learning as a novel approach to transfer learning in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). The proposed approach aims to learn subject-invariant representations by simultaneously training a conditional variational autoencoder (cVAE) and an adve...

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Published in:International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (Online) pp. 207 - 210
Main Authors: Ozdenizci, Ozan, Wang, Ye, Koike-Akino, Toshiaki, Erdogmus, Deniz
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.03.2019
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ISSN:1948-3554
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Summary:We introduce adversarial neural networks for representation learning as a novel approach to transfer learning in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). The proposed approach aims to learn subject-invariant representations by simultaneously training a conditional variational autoencoder (cVAE) and an adversarial network. We use shallow convolutional architectures to realize the cVAE, and the learned encoder is transferred to extract subject-invariant features from unseen BCI users' data for decoding. We demonstrate a proof-of-concept of our approach based on analyses of electroencephalographic (EEG) data recorded during a motor imagery BCI experiment.
ISSN:1948-3554
DOI:10.1109/NER.2019.8716897