Toward Wearable EEG-based Alertness Detection System Using SVM with Optimal Minimum Channels

Mihong Yang, Huiyan Li, Xiaozhou Sun, Li Yang, Hailong Duan, Yanqiu Che, Chunxiao Han

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Abstract

Alertness is the state of attention by high sensory awareness. A lack of alertness is one of the main reasons of serious accidents. Traffic accidents caused by driver's drowsy driving have a high fatality rate. This paper presents an EEG-based alertness detection system. In order to ensure the convenience and long-Term wearing comfort of EEG recordings, the wearable electrode cap will be the principal choice in the future, and the selection of channels will be limited. We first built a 3-D simulated driving platform using Unity3D. Then, we perform an experiment with driving drift task. EEG signals are recorded form frontal and occipital regions. We select data segments using the driving reaction time, classify the state of alertness with a support vector machine (SVM), and select the optimal combination of channels with minimum number of channels. Our results demonstrate that alertness can be classified efficiently with one channel (PO6) at accuracy of 93.52%, with two channels (FP1+PO6) at 95.85% and with three channels (FP1+PO6+PO5 and FP1+PO6+POZ) at 96.11%.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number03009
JournalMATEC Web of Conferences
Volume214
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 15 2018
Event2nd International Conference on Information Processing and Control Engineering, ICIPCE 2018 - Shanghai, China
Duration: Jul 27 2018Jul 29 2018

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Chemistry
  • General Materials Science
  • General Engineering

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