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VIMSNet: an effective network for visually induced motion sickness detection

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Visually induced motion sickness (VIMS) often occurs when people are exposed to virtual reality (VR) environments. It is necessary to develop a method that can detect the VR user’s VIMS level effectively according to physiological signals. In this study, subjects were visually stimulated by a VR vehicle-driving simulator (VDS) to induce VIMS, and an EEG device with only four electrodes was used to collect EEG data. The data were simply preprocessed and then inputted into our well-designed classifier (VIMSNet). Two important modules are presented in VIMSNet for high-performance classification: a parallel-feature extraction (PFE) module is designed to extract features with different scales from EEG data, and a feature attention (FA) module is designed to emphasize useful features while suppressing less useful ones. Experimental results show that our proposed VIMSNet outperforms the state-of-the-art (SOTA) classifiers in various classification tasks: for per-subject binary classification, the proposed classifier achieved an average accuracy and kappa of 0.967 and 0.930, respectively; for multiple-subject binary classification, it yielded an accuracy of 0.953 and a kappa of 0.903; for multiple-subject four-level classification, the accuracy and kappa were 0.925 and 0.874, respectively. Our study also indicates that it is feasible to accurately detect VIMS using an EEG device with a small number of electrodes. Source code is available at https://github.com/threedteam/VIMSNet.

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This work was supported in part by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant Number 2019CDYGZD004); the National Institutes of Health P30 core grant (Grant Number P30EY003790); the Chongqing Foundation and Advanced Research Project (Grant Number cstc2019jcyj-msxmX0622); the Sichuan Science and Technology Program (Grant Number 2019YFSY0026); and the Open Fund Project of the Key Laboratory of Chongqing University Cancer Hospital.

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    Ran Liu, Shanshan Cui, Yang Zhao & Xi Chen

  2. Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Ran Liu & Alex D. Hwang

  3. Chongqing University Cancer Hospital, Chongqing, 400030, China

    Lin Yi

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Liu, R., Cui, S., Zhao, Y. et al. VIMSNet: an effective network for visually induced motion sickness detection. SIViP 16, 2029–2036 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-022-02164-9

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