PREMIA (Singapore)

We are pleased to invite you to the following seminar talk jointly organized by Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) and Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA):

New Frontiers in Brain-Machine Interface Research: Machine Learning Techniques for Brain-Computer Interface

Prof. Klaus-Robert Mueller
Intelligent Data Analysis Group, Fraunhofer FIRST, Berlin, Germany.
Neuroinformatics Chair, Department of Computer Science, University of Potsdam, Germany.

Date: Monday, 10/01/2005

Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Venue: Auditorium, Institute for Infocomm Research, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613

Admission: Admission is free

Registeration: Please register here

Synopsis:

Brain Computer Interfacing (BCI) aims at making use of brain signals for e.g. the control of objects, spelling, gaming and so on. This talk will first provide a brief overview of the current BCI research activities. The second part -- now from a machine learning and signal processing perspective -- shows the wealth, the complexity and the difficulties of the data available, a truely enormous challenge. In real-time a multi-variate very strongly noise contaminated data stream is to be processed and classified. Finally, Prof Mueller will report in more detail about the Berlin Brain Computer (BBCI) Interface that is based on EEG signals and take the audience all the way from the measured signal, the preprocessing and filtering, the classification to the respective application. BCI as a new channel for man-machine communication is discussed in a clincial setting and for gaming.

Biography:

Prof. Müller received his PhD degree in Computer Science from Institute for Logics, Complexity and Deduction Systems (University Karlsruhe) in 1992. He is now a full professor for neuroinformatics at University of Potsdam and Department Head of IDA group at Fraunhofer FIRST, Germany. From Dec 1992 to Dec 1993, he was a Research Fellow at the German National Research Center for Computer Science, GMD FIRST, Berlin, working on segmentation and classification with statistical and “neural” methods for time-series analysis. From March 1994 to July 1995, he was a Visiting Researcher at University of Tokyo, with Prof. Dr. S. Amari, working on learning curves and generalization in neural networks. He obtained his tenure position in 1995 as Department Head of the Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA) group at GMD FIRST, Berlin, working on learning theory (Support Vector Machines, Neural Networks, Boosting), analysis of nonstationary time-series, blind separation, and their applications on MEG, EEG, OCR, financial data, acoustics. He is a co-founder of the spin-off company idalab in Berlin. He was a Visiting Researcher at AT&T Bell Labs with Dr. LeCun and Prof. Vapnik, Salk Institute with Prof. Sejnowski, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Microsoft Research at Redmond, and so on. He served in scientific committees for various international conferences, such as NIPS, ICANN, ICA, COLT, NNSP, ICML, SBRN, etc. He is an Associate Editor for Computational Statistics (Springer) and IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. He is a reviewer for various international journals, such as Nature, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Signal Processing, PAMI, Biomedical Engineering, Systems, Circuits and Systems, Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, etc, Signal Processing, Neural Computation, Neural Networks, NeuroComputing, Computational Statistics, Statistics, Machine Learning, and so on. He is a reviewer for various grants, such as Alexander von Humboldt foundation, German Science Foundation, BMBF, Swiss National Science Foundation, Austrian Science Foundation, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Hong-Kong Research Grants Council. He is a consultant to Microsoft, Overture, KPMG, VW, Schering, IBM, etc. He received various awards and honors, such as Fellowship of Landesgraduiertenfoerderung Baden-Württemberg, EU STP Fellowship for Japan, GMD best project award (CANDY & KALIF), and Olympus prize for pattern recognition awarded by the German Pattern Recognition Society (DAGM). He has more than 13 books or book chapters, and more than120 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers.