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The ANR research project "OpenViBE" is a French national research project RNTL.

The aim of the OpenViBE project is to develop an open-source software environment enclosing novel and efficient techniques for Brain-Computer Interfaces, Neurofeedback and Virtual Reality. Brain-Computer Interfaces are novel interfaces that measure the cerebral activity of the user (using for instance EEG acquisition machines) and give Neurofeedback to the user or translate it into a command for a computer or another system (robot, machine, car, etc).

The two main innovations which the OpenViBE project focuses on :

• new techniques for processing and identification of cerebral data based on neurophysiological experimentations that will identify the best physiological indicators
• new techniques to send back information to the user of the BCI about his/her mental activity using Virtual Reality technologies, which could then be used to improve the learning and the control of the mental activity.

Applications of OpenViBE are numerous. Our consortium focuses on medical applications, notably devoted to disabled people (re-education, therapy, assistance, accessibility).

In the end, the OpenViBE project must lead to an available open-source software distributed over the internet. Three demonstrators will be built to illustrate the numerous possibilities of our technology, in the field of multimedia and assistance to disabled people.

Software

OpenViBE is freely available under the term of the L-GPL v2+, you can download it from http://openvibe.inria.fr

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Partners The OpenViBE project involves three partners : INRIA/IRISA (Bunraku project), experts in Virtual Reality and software engineering contact : Anatole Lécuyer (anatole [dot] lecuyer [at] irisa [dot] fr), senior researcher INSERM U280 (Mental processes and brain activation), experts in Neurophysiology and real-time EEG processing contact : Olivier Bertrand (bertrand [at] lyon [dot] inserm [dot] fr), research director France Telecom R&D, experts in signal processing and Human-Computer Interfaces contact : Bernard Hennion (bernard [dot] hennion [at] orange-ftgroup [dot] com) Collaborators : AFM for evaluations with disabled people contact : Claude Dumas (cdumas [at] afm [dot] genethon [dot] fr), head of technical assistance department CNRS, GIPSA-Lab contact : Marco Congedo (marco [dot] congedo [at] gmail [dot] com), senior scientist CEA LIST, instrumentation and radiation applications division contact : Antoine Souloumiac (antoine [dot] souloumiac [at] cea [dot] fr)

Contact For any information on the OpenViBE project : Anatole Lécuyer (anatole [dot] lecuyer [at] irisa [dot] fr) IRISA - Projet BUNRAKU Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu F-35042 Rennes Cedex France Tel: 02 99 84 74 83 Webmaster : Yann Renard (yann [dot] renard [at] irisa [dot] fr)