Characterization of facial and ocular gestures through electroencephalogram

Abstract

This article describes the characterization of facial and ocular gestures using the electroencephalogram (EEG) method connected with an EMOTIV EPOC+ Brainwear® device. This characterization is developed by the storage of raw data (unprocessed data) acquired by the device. The experiment was applied to nine subjects, considering that EEG explores neurophysiologically with high levels of statistical confidence the bioelectric activity in the brain in the condition of resting state such as wakeups or dreaming states. In contrast to non-resting states, the registered data showed a random and distinct activation of hyperpnea and intermittent luminous stimulus. Despite the reduced number of samples in the experiment, the results showed that the level of confidence was greater than 75%. The data was characterized and processed by a support vector machine (SVM).