From Euclidean to Riemannian Means: Information Geometry for SSVEP Classification

International audience; Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) based on electroencephalog-raphy (EEG) rely on multichannel brain signal processing. Most of the state-of-the-art approaches deal with covariance matrices , and indeed Riemannian geometry has provided a substantial framework for developing new algorithms. Most notably , a straightforward algorithm such as Minimum Distance to Mean yields competitive results when applied with a Riemannian distance. This applicative contribution aims at assessing the impact of several distances on real EEG dataset , as the invariances embedded in those distances have an influence on the classification accuracy . Euclidean and Riemannian distances and means are compared both in term of quality of results and of computational load .