Comparison of classification algorithms for EOG signals

In this paper, we present a comparison Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for classification of electrooculogram (EOG) signals acquired under specific eye movements. These methods that are required for an eye controlled system are compared by means of their accuracy and response time. Acquired EOG signals consist of 5 different eye movements - being horizontal (right and left), vertical (up and down) and blink. EOG signal acquisition was achieved from 20 different subjects by using two EOG channels (vertical and horizontal) and 3 element feature vectors were extracted. The first two elements of the feature vectors are the peak amplitudes of two channels whereas the third element, being our proposed parameter, is the kurtosis value of the active channel. 10 of 20 randomly selected feature vectors were used for training of the classifiers whereas the rest was used for performance tests. Offline tests yield 100 % success rate for both of the classifiers. The response times of both methods make them suitable for real-time usage.