Detecting navigation challenges for the visually impaired with mobile monitoring of biosignal

This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, 2020.

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Principais autores: Islam, Mohammad Waseq ul, Tasnim, Ridwana, Bhuiyan, MD. Hasib Ullah
Outros Autores: Parvez, Mohammad Zavid
Formato: Tese
Idioma:en_US
Publicado em: Brac University 2021
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spelling 10361-144612022-01-26T10:08:21Z Detecting navigation challenges for the visually impaired with mobile monitoring of biosignal Islam, Mohammad Waseq ul Tasnim, Ridwana Bhuiyan, MD. Hasib Ullah Parvez, Mohammad Zavid Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Brac University EEG BCI VIP Cognitive Load Machine Learning SVM WPSD This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, 2020. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 34-40). In recent years, mobile Brain Computer Interface (BCI) has gained much popularity in the design of navigation aids. This opens up the platform to build navigation aids based on the level of stress imposed on visually impaired people (VIPs). The goal is to build a bridge between different environments and the cognitive load on VIP navigating through those environments. In order to do that, the first step is to label the cognitive load each possible type of environment imposes on the VIPs. For the purposes of this study the stimuli have been narrowed down to indoor environments. Cognitive psychology defines cognitive load as the used amount of working memory resources. Working memory performance is measured by the spectral changes in the alpha frequency band in an Electroencephalography (EEG) report. This correlation provides a measurable quantity to determine the overall cognitive load associated with a task. Besides alpha bands, beta activity has also been linked to psychological and physiological stress, which in effect is imposed on cognition. The oscillations in another frequency band, gamma have also been observed to increase with memory load. Putting the above together, the bio signals in the alpha, beta and gamma frequency ranges are useful for detecting the cognitive load of the subject. The data set used in this study has been obtained from the European Union from one of their experiments for VIP. It constitutes of EEG signals taken from 9 visually impaired people as they navigated through various indoor environments. Features are extracted using Welch's Power Spectral Density (WPSD) from the relevant bands of the EEG signals. A Machine Learning algorithm is used for classification. The features are mapped onto different cognitive levels as labels and a Support Vector Machine (SVM) trained to classify the stress levels of the VIPs. The AUROC is around 90% for each environment analysed in this research. Mohammad Waseq ul Islam Ridwana Tasnim MD. Hasib Ullah Bhuiyan B. Computer Science 2021-06-01T17:17:40Z 2021-06-01T17:17:40Z 2020 2020-04 Thesis ID: 19341014 ID: 16101193 ID: 16141001 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/14461 en_US Brac University theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 40 pages application/pdf Brac University
institution Brac University
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language en_US
topic EEG
BCI
VIP
Cognitive Load
Machine Learning
SVM
WPSD
spellingShingle EEG
BCI
VIP
Cognitive Load
Machine Learning
SVM
WPSD
Islam, Mohammad Waseq ul
Tasnim, Ridwana
Bhuiyan, MD. Hasib Ullah
Detecting navigation challenges for the visually impaired with mobile monitoring of biosignal
description This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, 2020.
author2 Parvez, Mohammad Zavid
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Islam, Mohammad Waseq ul
Tasnim, Ridwana
Bhuiyan, MD. Hasib Ullah
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Tasnim, Ridwana
Bhuiyan, MD. Hasib Ullah
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title Detecting navigation challenges for the visually impaired with mobile monitoring of biosignal
title_short Detecting navigation challenges for the visually impaired with mobile monitoring of biosignal
title_full Detecting navigation challenges for the visually impaired with mobile monitoring of biosignal
title_fullStr Detecting navigation challenges for the visually impaired with mobile monitoring of biosignal
title_full_unstemmed Detecting navigation challenges for the visually impaired with mobile monitoring of biosignal
title_sort detecting navigation challenges for the visually impaired with mobile monitoring of biosignal
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