Unsupervised Cross-Subject BCI Learning and Classification using Riemannian Geometry

The inter-subject variability poses a challenge in cross-subject Brain-Computer Interface learning and classification. As a matter of fact, in cross-subject learning not all available subjects may improve the performance on a test subject. In order to address this problem we propose a subject selection algorithm and we investigate the use of this algorithm in the Riemannian geometry classification framework. We demonstrate that this new approach can significantly improve cross-suject learning without the need of any labeled data from test subjects.

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