An end-to-end (deep) neural network applied to raw EEG, fNIRs and body motion data for data fusion and BCI classification task without any pre-/post-processing

Brain computer interfaces (BCI) using EEG, fNIRS and body motion (MoCap) data are getting more attention due to the fact that fNIRS and MoCap are not prone to movement artifacts similar to other brain imaging techniques such as EEG. Advancements in deep learning (neural networks) would allow the use of raw data for efficient feature extraction without any pre-/post-processing. In this work, we are performing human activity recognition (BCI classification task) for 5 activity classes using an end-to-end (deep) neural network (NN) (from input all the way to the output) on raw fNIRS, EEG and MoCap data. Our core contribution is focused on applying an end-to-end NN model without any pre-/post-processing on the data. The entire NN model is being trained using backpropagation algorithm. Our end-to-end model is composed of a four-layered MLP: input layer, two hidden layers (using fully connected (dense) layer, batch normalization and leaky-RELU as non-linearity and activation function), and output layer using softmax. We have reached minimum 90\% accuracy on the test dataset for the classification task on 10 subjects data and 5 classes of activity.