Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

FP7 Projects

ACOBSEC

• Type: PEOPLE

• Instrument: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme

• Objectif: NC

• Duration: November 2013 - October 2016

• Coordinator: Pierrick Legrand

• Partner:

• Inria contact: Pierrick Legrand

• Abstract: Over the last decade, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has grown and matured as a field. Gone are the days when only a mouse and keyboard could be used to interact with a computer. The most ambitious of such interfaces are Brain-Computer Interaction (BCI) systems. The goal in BCI is to allow a person to interact with an artificial system using only brain activity. The most common approach towards BCI is to analyse, categorize and interpret Electroencephalography (EEG) signals, in such a way that they alter the state of a computer. The objective of the present project is to study the development of computer systems for the automatic analysis and classification of mental states of vigilance; i.e., a person's state of alertness. Such a task is relevant to diverse domains, where a person is expected or required to be in a particular state. However, this problem is by no means a trivial one. In fact, EEG signals are known to be highly noisy, irregular and tend to vary significantly from person to person, making the development of general techniques a very difficult scientific endeavor.

  List of Beneficiaries

  • Beneficiary 1 (coordinator) Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique Inria France

  • Beneficiary 2 Universite Victor Segalen Bordeaux II UB2 France

  • Beneficiary 3 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigacao e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa INESC-ID Portugal

  • Beneficiary 4 Universidad de Extremadura UNEX Spain

  • Partner 5 Instituto Tecnologico de Tijuana ITT Mexico

  • Partner 6 Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y educacion Superior de Ensenada, Baja California CICESE Mexico