I2R’s BCI team triumphs at BCI Competition IV 2008
The I2R team demonstrated clear strengths in EEG-based non-invasive BCI technology amongst a total of 35 submissions from all over the world participating in EEG-based non-invasive BCI categories, including reputable research organisations from Europe, US, Australia, and Asia, etc.
The BCI Competition IV was funded by the European Network of Excellence PASCAL2, and organized by Berlin Institute of Technology/Fraunhofer FIRST, Graz University of Technology, University of Tübingen, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Professor Lye Kin Mun, Deputy Executive Director (Research) said, “I would like to congratulate Dr Guan Cuntai and the team for this achievement. This simply proves that our in-house developed technologies are able to compete with the global offerings on a level playing field. I see this achievement as having a stamp of recognition from fellow researchers over the world for the team at I2R.”
The I2R team consists of Dr. Zhang Haihong, Dr. Ang Kai Keng, Chin Zheng Yang, Dr. Guan Cuntai, Wang Chuanchu, Phua Kok Soon, Dr. Brahim Hamadicharef and Tee Keng Peng. Additional information on this year’s BCI Competition IV is available at http://ida.first.fhg.de/projects/bci/competition_iv/results/index.html#winners
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