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IEEE SMC 2022

 

BR41N.IO DESIGNERS'
HACKATHON

 

BMI WORKSHOP AT 
IEEE SMC 2022
‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌October 9-11, 2022

Thank you for being part of this event! We had 321 attendees in the BMI

workshop and 167 participants in BR41N.IO BCI Hackathon in 38 teams! 

Everyone loves neurotechnology!

 

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BR41N.IO WINNER

 

ROCK(ING) paper scissors - An ECoG Hand Pose Data Analysis Project

 

Team members: Jack Yu Tung Lo, Igor Carrara, Andrea Fasciglione, Thiego Carvalho, Navyada Koshatwar

Project Description: Improving the classification accuracy results of a three-class ECoG dataset

 

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IEEE SMC WINNER

 

BrainiHEART - A Programming Project

 

Team members: Anita Vrins, Caterina Ceccato, Jos Prinsen, Ethel Pruss

Project Description: Controlling a robot in Tillburg (the Netherlands) by a person in Prague (Czech Republic) using the Unicorn Hybrid Black and P300 speller

 

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IEEE BR41N.IO WINNER

 

Re-emote - A Programming Project

 

Team members: Spatika Gujran, Katarzyna Klęczek, Giulio Tosato, Paula Šego

Project Description: Sending the EEG signals recorded with Unicorn Hybrid Black to a robot (NAO) in order to help the user communicate emotions through EEG signals

 

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HOSTING INSTITUTIONS

 

Universities who are proud owners of the Unicorn Education Kit automatically qualify as hosting institution. Official hosting institutions are fully embedded in the BR41N.IO Designers' Hackathons. Boost your institution’s visibility and awareness and benefit from a big audience.

Hosting institutions provide on-site access to EEG devices and brain-computer interface technology that you would need for programming projects. Just let us know at which hosting institition you would like to participate during the BR41N.IO Hackathon.

TILBURG UNIVERSITY

Department of Cognitive Science & AI
Prof. Maryam Alimardani

Tilburg, Netherlands

AALBORG UNIVERSITY

MeCIS Media Cognition & Interactive Systems
Prof. Luis Emilio Bruni & Hossein Dini

København , Denmark

G.TEC
AUSTRIA

g.tec medical engineering GmbH
Dr. Christoph Guger

Schiedlberg, Austria

UAE UNIVERSITY
ABU DHABI

  United Arab Emirates University
  Prof. Abdelkader N. Belkacem

  Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

MLJC
ITALY

Machine Learning Journal Club
Arianna Di Bernardo, Enrico Sansone
Turin, Italy

WEST UNIVERSITY FROM TIMISOARA

Fine art and Design Faculty
Prof. Camil Mihaescu, Ph
Timisoara, Romania

TEC DE MONTERREY 

Campus Guadalajara
Javier Mauricio Antelis Ortiz, PhD.
Jalisco, Mexico

ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

NSF AWARE-AI NRT Program and Electrical & Microelectronics Engineering Dept. 
Prof. Ferat Sahin
Rochester New York, USA

UNION COLLEGE 

Union Neurotech
Leonardo Ferrisi
New York, USA

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JURY

 

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Christoph Guger (AT)

g.tec medical engineering GmbH, Austria

 

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Tiago Falk (CA)

INRS-EMT, University of Quebec

 

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Tim Mullen (US)

Intheon

 

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Michael Smith (US)

University of California, Berkeley
IEEE Brain

 

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Ljiljana Trajkovic (CA)

Simon Fraser University

 

 

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Abdelkader Belkacem (UAE)

UAE University

 

 

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Ivan Volosyak (GER)

Hochschule Rhein Waal

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BMI SESSIONS & HACKATHON SCHEDULE

Time Zone: GMT Vienna,
Room: Zodiac, Clarion Congress Hotel Prague, Czech Republic, Room Zodiac

 

 Sunday, October 9

10:00 Welcome 
10:15

Current and Future Applications of
Brain-Computer Interfaces

Christoph Guger, g.tec medical engineering

11:00

How to run a Real-Time BCI Application
Leo Schreiner & Martin Walchshofer, g.tec medical engineering

11:30

Unicorn Brain Interface Demonstration
Leo Schreiner & Martin Walchshofer, g.tec medical engineering

12:00

Data Analysis Projects
Johannes Gründwald, Sebastian Sieghartsleitner, Clemens Flattinger, g.tec medical engineering

12:30

Group formation and START BR41N.IO
Christoph Guger, g.tec medical engineering, Austria
Maryam Alimardani, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Luis Emilio Bruni, Aalborg University, Denmark
Hossein Dini, Aalborg Universtiy, Denmark
Abdelkader N. Belkacem, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Javier Mauricio Antelis, Ortiz, Technológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Camil Mihaescu, West University from Timisoara, Romania
Leonardo Ferrisi, Union College, Schenectady, USA
Ferat Sahin, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA

13:00 BR41N.IO HACKING
15:00 fNIRS and EEG for brain-computer interfacing
Yalda Shahriari, University of Rhode Island, USA
15:30 Beyond a single brain: cognitive and emotional state assessment through physiological synchrony in groups. 
Jan van Erp, TNO, The Netherlands
24:00 End of hacking at conference location
  All night hacking at home

Monday, October 10

6:00 START BR41N.IO
10:00

Wearables meet Virtual Reality
Tiago Falk, MuSAE lab, Montreal, Canada

10:30 From multisensory reactive BCI for control to passive mode for dementia neuro-biomarker elucidation
Tomek Rutkowski, RIKEN AIP,  Tokyo, Japan
13:00

END of hacking

13:00

PANEL: Neurotechnology, AI, computer vision and the future of telepresence
Moderator: Tiago Falk
Kwong Tak Wu Sam, City University, Hong Kong
Jan van Erp, TNO, The Netherlands
Karen Panetta, Tufts University, USA
Ying (Gina) Tang, Rowan University, USA

14:00 BR41N.IO project presentations
17:30

BR41N.IO winners ceremony
Ljiljana Trajkovic, IEEE Director and SMC Award Chair
Michael Smith, IEEE Brain

Tiago Falk, IEEE SMC
Christoph Guger, g.tec medical engineering

18:30 BMI cocktail reception in foyer

 

Tuesday, October 11

13:00

BMIs for human enhancement: what has been done and what is coming?
Wlodek Duch, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland 

14:00

BCI Award 2022 Ceremony: Presentations & winner announcements
Christoph Guger, Dean Krusienski, Tomek M. Rutkowski, BCI Award board

16:00 BCI Award 2022 Winners Announcement

 

BCI PRINCIPLES

 

Brain-computer interfaces are realized by 4 different principles:

slow waves

steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP)

motor imagery (MI)

evoked potentials (EP)

In the BR41N.IO Hackathon Series, motor imagery and EP based systems
are mostly used to control the applications:

 

In the case of the motor imagery application, participants have to imagine e.g. left or right hand movement to produce an event-related desynchronization over the sensorimotor cortex. This is basically an amplitude change of the alpha and beta regions of the EEG.

In the case of EPs, the BCI system is showing different flashing icons and the user has to attend to the icon he wants to select. When the icon flashes on the computer screen, than a P300 wave is produced in the brain and the BCI system is able to detect it.
 

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PROGRAMMING PROJECTS*

*These projects require a Unicorn Hybrid Black, a Unicorn Naked BCI (available at hosting institutions) or use your own BCI system. 
 

Unicorn Speller: Smart Home

The Unicorn Brain Interface comes with the Unicorn Speller application that is using P300 paradigm to control electronic devices such as lamps, radios or television. Watch the video Unicorn Speller Smart Home.

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Speller, domestic electronic devices
participants: 2 groups, 3-5 people per group
skills: basic programming skills (Matlab, Simulink)

Registration

 

Unity Rehab

Create a Unity based game that can be used for rehabilitation purposes.

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Naked BCI, Unity
participants: 4 groups, 3-5 people per group
Skills: Basic programming skills (Matlab, Simulink), Basic graphics programming with Unity

Registration

 

‌‌ Unity Games

Create your own Unity game that can be controlled with a brain-computer interface.

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Naked BCI, Unity
participants: 4 groups, 3-5 people per group
Skills: Basic programming skills (Matlab, Simulink), Basic graphics programming with Unity

Registration

 

Your Hacking Project

You are invited to create your own programming project for this hackathon. You'll have all the BCI headsets or you bring your own BCI to design and program your own fully functional headset.

soft-/hardware specifications: Unicorn Hybrid BlackUnicorn Naked BCI, EEG device
participants: 2 groups, 3-5 people per group
skills: Basic programming skills

Registration

 

‌‌ Dream Painting

If you want to create a Dream Painting,  you have to wear a Unicorn Brain Interface while you sleep. When you wake up, you are able to create a picture based on EEG signals.

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Speller
participants: 2 groups, 3-5 people per group
skills: Basic programming skills (Matlab, Simulink)

Registration

 

‌‌‌ fNIRS and EEG Control

The team can use fNIRS (functional near-infrared spectroscopy) and EEG simultaneously to control BCI applications.

soft-/hardware: g.Nautilus fNIRS
participants: 1 group, 3-5 people per group
skills: Basic programming skills (Matlab, Simulink)

Registration

 

Sense & Stimulate the Brain

Stimulate the brain with tDCS to increase or mental performance and measure brain activity with EEG at the same time with the Unicorn Hybrid Black environment. 

soft-/hardware specifications: g.tec's Brain Stimulator, your own tDCS device
participants: 1 groups, 3-5 people per group
skills: Basic programming skills (Matlab, Simulink, C#)

Registration

 

‌‌ Unicorn Sphero

The Unicorn Hybrid Black offers the Unicorn Speller application that allows you to control a robotic ball called Sphero. Watch the video Unicorn Sphero.

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Speller, Sphero robot
participants: 2 groups, 3-5 people per group
skills: Basic programming skills (C#)

Registration

 

‌‌‌ Orthosis Control

It is possible to control a 3D printed orthosis using a Unicorn Hybrid Black with motor imagery. It is possible to move an orthosis by thinking about left or right hand motion. Watch the Orthosis Control video.

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Speller, bring your own orthosis or use Unity instead
participants: 2 groups, 3-5 people per group
Skills: Basic programming skills (Matlab, Simulink), basic graphics programming skills with Unity

Registration

 

‌‌ Flight Control

The Unicorn Hybrid Black comes with the Unicorn Speller which allows you to fly your own drone with the brain only.

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Speller, bring your own drone or use Unity instead
participants: 2 groups, 3-5 people per group
skills: Basic programming skills (Java)

Registration

 

DATA ANALYSIS PROJECTS* 

*no hardware required.
 

‌‌‌ Stroke Rehab Data Analysis

Analyze a motor imagery BCI data-set from a chronic stroke patient in order to optimize pre-processing, feature extraction and classification algorithms. Compare your results with state-of-the-art algorithms.

soft-/hardware: MATLAB or other signal processing platform that is able to read in the MATLAB matrix
participants: 3 groups, 3-5 people per group
skills: signal processing skills

Registration ‌‌‌

 

‌‌ P300 Speller Data Analysis

Analyze a visual P300 BCI data-set from a healthy person in order to optimize pre-processing, feature extraction and classification algorithms. Compare your results with state-of-the-art algorithms.

soft-/hardware: MATLAB or other signal processing platform that is able to read in the MATLAB matrix
participants: 3 groups, 3-5 people per group
skills: signal processing skills

Registration ‌‌

 

‌‌‌ Unresponsive Wakefullness Syndrom Data Analysis

Analyze a vibro-tactile P300 BCI data-set from a patient with disorders of consciousness in order to optimize pre-processing, feature extraction and classification algorithms. Compare your results with state-of-the-art algorithms.

soft-/hardware: MATLAB or other signal processing platform that is able to read in the MATLAB matrix
participants: 3 groups, 3-5 people per group
skills: signal processing skills

Registration

 

‌‌‌ SSVEP Data Analysis

Analyze an SSVEP BCI data-set from a healthy person in order to optimize pre-processing, feature extraction and classification algorithms. Compare your results with state-of-the-art algorithms.

soft-/hardware: MATLAB or other signal processing platform that is able to read in the MATLAB matrix
participants: 3 groups, 3-5 people per groupskills: signal processing skills

Registration

 

‌‌‌ Locked-in Patient Data Analysis

Analyze a vibro-tactile P300 BCI data-set from a patient with locked-in syndrom in order to optimize pre-processing, feature extraction and classification algorithms. Compare your results with state-of-the-art algorithms.

soft-/hardware: MATLAB or other signal processing platform that is able to read in the MATLAB matrix
participants: 3 groups, 3-5 people per group
skills: signal processing skills

Registration

 

‌‌‌ ECoG Hand Pose Data Analysis

Analyze an ECoG BCI data-set from an epilepsy person in order to optimize pre-processing, feature extraction and classification algorithms. Compare your results with state-of-the-art algorithms.

soft-/hardware: MATLAB or other signal processing platform that is able to read in the MATLAB matrix
participants: 3 groups, 3-5 people per group
skills: signal processing skills

Registration ‌‌

 

ARTISTIC PROJECTS*

*these projects require sewing machines, 3D printers, painting or crafting materials.

 

‌‌ Unicorn Painting

Create images according to your brain activity that you measure with the Unicorn Brain Interface.

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Painting
participants: 2 groups, 3-5 people per group

Registration ‌‌

 

‌‌ Unicorn Painting

Create images according to your brain activity that you measure with the Unicorn Brain Interface.

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Painting
participants: 2 groups, 3-5 people per group

Registration ‌‌

 

Design Unicorn Brain Interface with 3D Printers

Expand the Unicorn Brain Interface with your own 3D printed parts. Let them move, light, hold things or simply look nice. Watch the video 3D Headset Design.

soft-/hardware: 3D printer, 3D freeware
participants: 2 groups, 3-5 people per group
Skills: Basic CAD

Registration ‌‌

 

Visual Arts & BCI

Finding new ways of developing artistic projects using Unicorn BCI.

soft-/hardware: tbd
participants: 10 people

Registration ‌‌

 

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