One class support vector machine based filter for improving the classification accuracy of SSVEP BCI

Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) has been proved to be effective in the detection of steady state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) signals. However, the CCA method only chooses the frequency in the reference mode that corresponds to the maximum correlation value as the target. This may make the CCA output less robust. In this study, we propose a one-class support vector machine based filter to filter the sequences of correlation values in the process of the detection of SSVEP signals. The results demonstrate that the classification accuracy improved over different time windows for all subjects and the improvement achieved approximately 10% for some subjects. Moreover, the ratio of instructions that were filtered incorrectly was relative low (less than 5%) if the SSVEP signals were generated effectively.