Multimedia and Multimodal Signal Analysis and Enhancement (MuSAE) Lab

Université du Québec - Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), Montréal, Québec
What the facility does

Multimodal signal processing for anthropomorphic multimedia technologies, health diagnostics, and human-machine interaction

Areas of expertise

The MuSAE lab features an interdisciplinary group of researchers developing user-centric, biologically inspired multimedia technologies; automated health diagnostic tools, and adaptive human-machine interfaces. The lab features wearable sensor technologies, neuroimaging tools, multimedia displays, and powerful computational analysis machines.

Research services
  • Audio/video analytics
  • Room acoustics characterization
  • Multimedia signal processing
  • Multimedia quality assessment and enhancement
  • Biomedical signal processing for disease diagnosis
  • Brain-computer interfacing
  • Portable functional neuroimaging (fNIRS-EEG)
  • Biosignal de-noising, human performance testing
Sectors of application
  • Aerospace and satellites
  • Defence and security industries
  • Education
  • Healthcare and social services
  • Information and communication technologies and media
  • Life sciences, pharmaceuticals and medical equipment
  • Transportation
Specialized lab Equipment Function
MuSAE Lab – neuroimaging 64-channel ActiveTwo (BioSemi)
 Electroencephalography (wired)
  14-channel EMOTIV EEG neuroheadset
 Electroencephalography (wireless)
  4-channel InteraXon MUSE headset Electroencephalography (wireless)
  8-channel Enobio EEG headset (dry or gel-based electrodes) Electroencephalography (wireless)
  384-channel NIRScout
 Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Fully integrated with ActiveTwo
  64-channel portable NIRSport Portable fNIRS. Fully integrated with Enobio
MuSAE Lab – wearables Shimmer Platinum Wireless Sensor Development Kit Measure/monitor ECG, EMG, strain gauge, 9DoF, GSR.
  Affectiva Q Sensor GSR monitor Measure/monitor galvanic skin response
  Hexoskin garment Measure/monitor ECG, respiration, activity
  Wireless blood pressure monitor (iHealth) Measure/monitor blood pressure
  ActiveTwo compatible 3-D accelerometer, skin temperature, blood volume pulse, respiration, and skin conductance sensors Measure/monitor physiological responses
MuSAE Lab – eye tracking Head-mounted EyeLink 1000
 Monocular/1000Hz or binocular/500Hz
  SMI ETG eye-tracking glasses Binocular, fully integrated with EMOTIV EEG headset
MuSAE Lab – other Interacoustics AD629e hybrid dianogistic audiometer Hearing assessment
  Microsoft Kinect Developer Kit Microphone array, depth and colour cameras
  Oculus Rift Development Kit (v1&2) Virtual reality headset
  Multi-core processing, GPUs and storage 2x Dell machines (8-core/12-core, 100Gb RAM), 1x Dell server, 1x 24Tb backup storage, 2x Tesla K40 GPUs
MuSAE Lab – software LabVIEW Data acquisition software
  Presentation Data collection software
  EMSE Suite (with BCI extensions) Neuroimaging online/offline analysis
  OPTICOM PEXQ Software licence for ITU-T P.863/P.862 speech quality measurement standards