BCI Competition 2003

[Benjamin Blankertz]

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Dear collegues,

we are happy to announce december 6th 2002 as the start of the

* BCI Competition 2003 *

on classifying single-trial electroencephalography (EEG) data in the
context of brain-computer interface (BCI) systems.

There are six different data sets of four BCI groups (Albany, Berlin,
Graz, Tuebingen, see below). For each data set there is one labeled
part (training set) that can be used to calibrate analysis systems and
one part for which the labels are kept secret (test set). The
competition is evaluated on each data set separately according to the
participants' submissions (labels resp. continuous feedback signals)
for the test set.  Deadline for submissions is may 1st 2003.

For each data set the competition winners get a chance to publish
their algorithm in an article devoted to the competition that will
appear in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

For more information please visit
  http://ida.first.fraunhofer.de/~blanker/competition/


The competition organizers,

  Albany:    Theresa M. Vaughan, Gerwin Schalk, Jonathan R. Wolpaw 
  Berlin:    Benjamin Blankertz, Gabriel Curio, Klaus-Robert Mueller 
  Graz:      Alois Schloegl, Christa Neuper, Gernot Mueller, 
             Bernhard Graimann, Gert Pfurtscheller 
  Tuebingen: Thilo Hinterberger, Michael Schroeder, Niels Birbaumer


Contact:

Dr. Benjamin Blankertz,  +49.30.6392-1875
Fraunhofer FIRST.IDA
Kekulestr. 7, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
benjamin.blankertz at first.fraunhofer.de