Towards Scalable Handwriting Communication via EEG Decoding and Latent Embedding Integration

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Main Authors: Kim, Jun-Young, Kim, Deok-Seon, Lee, Seo-Hyun
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author Kim, Jun-Young
Kim, Deok-Seon
Lee, Seo-Hyun
author_facet Kim, Jun-Young
Kim, Deok-Seon
Lee, Seo-Hyun
contents In recent years, brain-computer interfaces have made advances in decoding various motor-related tasks, including gesture recognition and movement classification, utilizing electroencephalogram (EEG) data. These developments are fundamental in exploring how neural signals can be interpreted to recognize specific physical actions. This study centers on a written alphabet classification task, where we aim to decode EEG signals associated with handwriting. To achieve this, we incorporate hand kinematics to guide the extraction of the consistent embeddings from high-dimensional neural recordings using auxiliary variables (CEBRA). These CEBRA embeddings, along with the EEG, are processed by a parallel convolutional neural network model that extracts features from both data sources simultaneously. The model classifies nine different handwritten characters, including symbols such as exclamation marks and commas, within the alphabet. We evaluate the model using a quantitative five-fold cross-validation approach and explore the structure of the embedding space through visualizations. Our approach achieves a classification accuracy of 91 % for the nine-class task, demonstrating the feasibility of fine-grained handwriting decoding from EEG.
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spellingShingle Towards Scalable Handwriting Communication via EEG Decoding and Latent Embedding Integration
Kim, Jun-Young
Kim, Deok-Seon
Lee, Seo-Hyun
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
In recent years, brain-computer interfaces have made advances in decoding various motor-related tasks, including gesture recognition and movement classification, utilizing electroencephalogram (EEG) data. These developments are fundamental in exploring how neural signals can be interpreted to recognize specific physical actions. This study centers on a written alphabet classification task, where we aim to decode EEG signals associated with handwriting. To achieve this, we incorporate hand kinematics to guide the extraction of the consistent embeddings from high-dimensional neural recordings using auxiliary variables (CEBRA). These CEBRA embeddings, along with the EEG, are processed by a parallel convolutional neural network model that extracts features from both data sources simultaneously. The model classifies nine different handwritten characters, including symbols such as exclamation marks and commas, within the alphabet. We evaluate the model using a quantitative five-fold cross-validation approach and explore the structure of the embedding space through visualizations. Our approach achieves a classification accuracy of 91 % for the nine-class task, demonstrating the feasibility of fine-grained handwriting decoding from EEG.
title Towards Scalable Handwriting Communication via EEG Decoding and Latent Embedding Integration
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09170