OpenViBE: An Open-Source Software Platform to Design, Test and Use Brain-Computer Interfaces in Real and Virtual Environments

Yann Renard; Fabien Lotte; Guillaume Gibert; Marco Congedo; Emmanuel Maby; Vincent Delannoy; Olivier Bertrand; Anatole Lécuyer

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OpenViBE: An Open-Source Software Platform to Design, Test and Use Brain-Computer Interfaces in Real and Virtual Environments

Yann Renard ¹, Fabien Lotte () ^1, 2, Guillaume Gibert ³, Marco Congedo () ⁴, Emmanuel Maby ³, Vincent Delannoy ¹, Olivier Bertrand ³, Anatole Lécuyer ( Author to contact preferably ) ¹

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments / Presence Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 19, 1 (2010) 35-53

Abstract: This paper describes the OpenViBE software platform which enables researchers to design, test, and use brain–computer interfaces (BCIs). BCIs are communication systems that enable users to send commands to computers solely by means of brain activity. BCIs are gaining interest among the virtual reality (VR) community since they have appeared as promising interaction devices for virtual environments (VEs). The key features of the platform are (1) high modularity, (2) embedded tools for visualization and feedback based on VR and 3D displays, (3) BCI design made available to non-programmers thanks to visual programming, and (4) various tools offered to the different types of users. The platform features are illustrated in this paper with two entertaining VR applications based on a BCI. In the first one, users can move a virtual ball by imagining hand movements, while in the second one, they can control a virtual spaceship using real or imagined foot movements. Online experiments with these applications together with the evaluation of the platform computational performances showed its suitability for the design of VR applications controlled with a BCI. OpenViBE is a free software distributed under an open-source license.

1: BUNRAKU (INRIA - IRISA)
CNRS : UMR6074 – INRIA – Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) - Rennes – École normale supérieure de Cachan - ENS Cachan – Université de Rennes 1
2: Brain-Computer Interface Laboratory - Singapore (BCI)
Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R)
3: Dynamique Cérébrale et Cognition
INSERM : U821 – Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I
4: Grenoble Images Parole Signal Automatique (GIPSA-lab)
CNRS : UMR5216 – Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I – Université Pierre-Mendès-France - Grenoble II – Université Stendhal - Grenoble III – Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology

Collaboration : Open-ViBE

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    title = {{OpenViBE: An Open-Source Software Platform to Design, Test and Use Brain-Computer Interfaces in Real and Virtual Environments}},
    author = {Renard, Yann and Lotte, Fabien and Gibert, Guillaume and Congedo, Marco and Maby, Emmanuel and Delannoy, Vincent and Bertrand, Olivier and L{\'e}cuyer, Anatole},
    abstract = {{This paper describes the OpenViBE software platform which enables researchers to design, test, and use brain--computer interfaces (BCIs). BCIs are communication systems that enable users to send commands to computers solely by means of brain activity. BCIs are gaining interest among the virtual reality (VR) community since they have appeared as promising interaction devices for virtual environments (VEs). The key features of the platform are (1) high modularity, (2) embedded tools for visualization and feedback based on VR and 3D displays, (3) BCI design made available to non-programmers thanks to visual programming, and (4) various tools offered to the different types of users. The platform features are illustrated in this paper with two entertaining VR applications based on a BCI. In the first one, users can move a virtual ball by imagining hand movements, while in the second one, they can control a virtual spaceship using real or imagined foot movements. Online experiments with these applications together with the evaluation of the platform computational performances showed its suitability for the design of VR applications controlled with a BCI. OpenViBE is a free software distributed under an open-source license.}},
    keywords = {Virtual-Reality, EEG acquisition, on-line, digital signal processing, data visualization},
    language = {English},
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    pages = {35-53},
    journal = {Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments / Presence Teleoperators and Virtual Environments},
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    note = {D{\'e}partement Images et Signal D{\'e}partement Images et Signal },
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    year = {2010},
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