2026-06-10 –, Devzone
This live demonstration showcases GAPses, an ultra-low-power smart-glasses platform based on an ultra-low power RISC-V multicore processor (GAP9), enabling always-on, real-time, energy-efficient edge processing of electrooculography (EOG) and electroencephalography. GAPses performs on-device signal processing and machine-learning inference, converting raw biosignals into events without cloud compute or continuous high-bandwidth streaming, enabling energy-scalable and privacy-preserving operation. In the demo, dry electrodes integrated into the glasses frame capture horizontal/vertical EOG, and an on-device lightweight CNN running on GAP9 classifies saccadic eye movements from these EOG signals in real time. The resulting eye-movement events are transmitted via BLE to a laptop running a visualization application, which displays the CNN outputs alongside filtered EOG traces. The classification stream drives multiple interactive scenarios, including grid control, a Tetris game, and live class-probability visualization. During the demo session, we will run the complete pipeline live: a team member will wear the glasses and perform a sequence of saccades to trigger on-device CNN inference. The GUI updates in real time with predicted classes and EOG traces, allowing attendees to observe latency, robustness, and privacy benefits of RISC-V-based embedded biosignal inference in a practical wearable form factor. Overall, the demo highlights GAPses as an open, fully wearable research platform and illustrates how parallel RISC-V compute enables always-on neural interfaces by executing sensing, inference, and event-level decisions locally without cloud dependence or continuous high-bandwidth streaming.
Sebastian Frey received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from
ETH Zürich, Switzerland, in 2022. He is currently working toward his Ph.D. in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. L. Benini at the Integrated Systems Laboratory, D-ITET, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. His research interests focus on the design of intelligent, head-centric wearables and on applying machine learning for biosignal processing on low-power devices, aiming to advance smart wearable technologies for real-time health monitoring and human-computer interaction.