Use of a Cost-Effective Neuroheadset Emotiv EPOC for Pattern Recognition Purposes

Aleksandra Kawala-Janik, Jerzy Baranowski, Michal Podpora, Pawel Piatek, Mariusz Pelc

Abstract: Application of biomedical signals for the control purposes is currently growing interest of research society. Various biomedical signals enable various control prospects. In this paper application domain of using electroencephalographic signals obtained from an inexpensive Emotiv EPOC headset was described. It is also important to mention the possible implementation of the proposed method on an embedded platform, as it causes some significant limitations due to the little efficiency and low computing power of an embedded system platform. The proposed method enables to extend future application of the BCI system presented in this paper and it also gives more testing flexibility, as the platform can simulate various external environments. It is crucial to mention, that no filtering was done and that the traditional, statistical signal processing methods were in this work neither used, nor described.