This paper presents a new classification framework for brain-computer interface (BCI) based on motor imagery. This framework involves the concept of Riemannian geometry in the manifold of covariance matrices. The main idea is to use spatial covariance matrices as EEG signal descriptors and to rely on Riemannian geometry to directly classify these matrices using the topology of the manifold of s...

A metric for characterizing spatially nonstationary channels is introduced. It is based on MIMO correlation matrices and measures the distance between the correlation matrices estimated at different times to characterize how strong the spatial structure of the channel has changed. By analyzing synthetic and measured MIMO data it is shown that the introduced metric is useful for characterization...

given four complex matrices a, b, c and d where a 2 cnn and d 2 cmm andlet the matrix(a bc d)be a normal matrix and assume that  is a given complex number that is not eigenvalue of matrix a. we present a method to calculate the distance norm (with respect to 2-norm) from d to the set of matrices x 2 cmm such that,  be a multiple eigenvalue of matrix(a bc x). we also nd the nearest matrix ...

This paper develops two new models and evaluates the impact of using different weight matrices on parameter estimates and inference in three distinct spatial specifications for discrete response. These specifications rely on a conventional, sparse, inverse-distance weight matrix for a spatial auto-regressive probit (SARP), a spatial autoregressive approach where the weight matrix

The implications of ignoring potential spatial dependence in county-level yield data are discussed. Spatial dependence in a county-level yield data set is identified and methods for correcting the dependence via spatial weighting matrices and generalized least squares regression are performed. The paper also examines how the spatial dependence declines as the distance between observations incre...

Euclidean distance matrices (EDM) are symmetric nonnegative with several interesting properties. In this article, we introduce a wider class of called generalized (GEDMs) that include EDMs. Each GEDM is an entry-wise matrix. A not unless it EDM. By some new techniques, show many significant results on can be extended to matrices. These contain about eigenvalues, inverse, determinant, spectral r...

Recently, analytical approaches based on the eigenfunctions of spatial configuration matrices have been proposed in order to consider explicitly spatial predictors. The present study demonstrates the usefulness of eigenfunctions in spatial modeling applied to ecological problems and shows equivalencies of and differences between the two current implementations of this methodology. The two appro...