scholarly journals Affective Computing on Machine Learning-Based Emotion Recognition Using a Self-Made EEG Device

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (15) ◽  
pp. 5135
Author(s):  
Ngoc-Dau Mai ◽  
Boon-Giin Lee ◽  
Wan-Young Chung
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Affective Computing ◽  
Electrode Placement ◽  
Entropy Measure ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Emotion Classification ◽  
Eeg Signals ◽  
Computing Method

In this research, we develop an affective computing method based on machine learning for emotion recognition using a wireless protocol and a wearable electroencephalography (EEG) custom-designed device. The system collects EEG signals using an eight-electrode placement on the scalp; two of these electrodes were placed in the frontal lobe, and the other six electrodes were placed in the temporal lobe. We performed experiments on eight subjects while they watched emotive videos. Six entropy measures were employed for extracting suitable features from the EEG signals. Next, we evaluated our proposed models using three popular classifiers: a support vector machine (SVM), multi-layer perceptron (MLP), and one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D-CNN) for emotion classification; both subject-dependent and subject-independent strategies were used. Our experiment results showed that the highest average accuracies achieved in the subject-dependent and subject-independent cases were 85.81% and 78.52%, respectively; these accuracies were achieved using a combination of the sample entropy measure and 1D-CNN. Moreover, our study investigates the T8 position (above the right ear) in the temporal lobe as the most critical channel among the proposed measurement positions for emotion classification through electrode selection. Our results prove the feasibility and efficiency of our proposed EEG-based affective computing method for emotion recognition in real-world applications.

scholarly journals Multi-Feature Input Deep Forest for EEG-Based Emotion Recognition

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinfeng Fang ◽  
Haiyang Yang ◽  
Xuguang Zhang ◽  
Han Liu ◽  
Bo Tao
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Affective Computing ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Emotion Classification ◽  
Eeg Signals ◽  
K Nearest Neighbors ◽  
Power Spectral ◽  
Deep Forest ◽  
Human Emotions

Due to the rapid development of human–computer interaction, affective computing has attracted more and more attention in recent years. In emotion recognition, Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals are easier to be recorded than other physiological experiments and are not easily camouflaged. Because of the high dimensional nature of EEG data and the diversity of human emotions, it is difficult to extract effective EEG features and recognize the emotion patterns. This paper proposes a multi-feature deep forest (MFDF) model to identify human emotions. The EEG signals are firstly divided into several EEG frequency bands and then extract the power spectral density (PSD) and differential entropy (DE) from each frequency band and the original signal as features. A five-class emotion model is used to mark five emotions, including neutral, angry, sad, happy, and pleasant. With either original features or dimension reduced features as input, the deep forest is constructed to classify the five emotions. These experiments are conducted on a public dataset for emotion analysis using physiological signals (DEAP). The experimental results are compared with traditional classifiers, including K Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Random Forest (RF), and Support Vector Machine (SVM). The MFDF achieves the average recognition accuracy of 71.05%, which is 3.40%, 8.54%, and 19.53% higher than RF, KNN, and SVM, respectively. Besides, the accuracies with the input of features after dimension reduction and raw EEG signal are only 51.30 and 26.71%, respectively. The result of this study shows that the method can effectively contribute to EEG-based emotion classification tasks.

Emotions Recognition and Signal Classification

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Rana Seif Fathalla ◽  
Wafa Saad Alshehri
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Affective Computing ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Decomposition Technique ◽  
Emotion Classification ◽  
Eeg Signals ◽  
Smart Systems ◽  
Emotion Elicitation ◽  
Mode Decomposition ◽  
Elicitation Process

Affective computing aims to create smart systems able to interact emotionally with users. For effective affective computing experiences, emotions should be detected accurately. The emotion influences appear in all the modalities of humans, such as the facial expression, voice, and body language, as well as in the different bio-parameters of the agents, such as the electro-dermal activity (EDA), the respiration patterns, the skin conductance, and the temperature as well as the brainwaves, which is called electroencephalography (EEG). This review provides an overview of the emotion recognition process, its methodology, and methods. It also explains the EEG-based emotion recognition as an example of emotion recognition methods demonstrating the required steps starting from capturing the EEG signals during the emotion elicitation process, then feature extraction using different techniques, such as empirical mode decomposition technique (EMD) and variational mode decomposition technique (VMD). Finally, emotion classification using different classifiers including the support vector machine (SVM) and deep neural network (DNN) is also highlighted.

scholarly journals A Machine Learning Approach to EEG-based Prediction of Human Affective States Using Recursive Feature Elimination Method

2021 ◽  
Vol 335 ◽  
pp. 04001
Author(s):  
Didar Dadebayev ◽  
Goh Wei Wei ◽  
Tan Ee Xion
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Fractal Dimension ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Affective Computing ◽  
Feature Selection Method ◽  
Recursive Feature Elimination ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Emotion Classification

Emotion recognition, as a branch of affective computing, has attracted great attention in the last decades as it can enable more natural brain-computer interface systems. Electroencephalography (EEG) has proven to be an effective modality for emotion recognition, with which user affective states can be tracked and recorded, especially for primitive emotional events such as arousal and valence. Although brain signals have been shown to correlate with emotional states, the effectiveness of proposed models is somewhat limited. The challenge is improving accuracy, while appropriate extraction of valuable features might be a key to success. This study proposes a framework based on incorporating fractal dimension features and recursive feature elimination approach to enhance the accuracy of EEG-based emotion recognition. The fractal dimension and spectrum-based features to be extracted and used for more accurate emotional state recognition. Recursive Feature Elimination will be used as a feature selection method, whereas the classification of emotions will be performed by the Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm. The proposed framework will be tested with a widely used public database, and results are expected to demonstrate higher accuracy and robustness compared to other studies. The contributions of this study are primarily about the improvement of the EEG-based emotion classification accuracy. There is a potential restriction of how generic the results can be as different EEG dataset might yield different results for the same framework. Therefore, experimenting with different EEG dataset and testing alternative feature selection schemes can be very interesting for future work.

scholarly journals Improved Deep Feature Learning by Synchronization Measurements for Multi-Channel EEG Emotion Recognition

Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Chao ◽  
Liang Dong ◽  
Yongli Liu ◽  
Baoyun Lu
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Affective Computing ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Eeg Signals ◽  
Global Synchronization ◽  
Spatial Characteristics ◽  
Maximal Information Coefficient ◽  
Deep Learning Model

Emotion recognition based on multichannel electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is a key research area in the field of affective computing. Traditional methods extract EEG features from each channel based on extensive domain knowledge and ignore the spatial characteristics and global synchronization information across all channels. This paper proposes a global feature extraction method that encapsulates the multichannel EEG signals into gray images. The maximal information coefficient (MIC) for all channels was first measured. Subsequently, an MIC matrix was constructed according to the electrode arrangement rules and represented by an MIC gray image. Finally, a deep learning model designed with two principal component analysis convolutional layers and a nonlinear transformation operation extracted the spatial characteristics and global interchannel synchronization features from the constructed feature images, which were then input to support vector machines to perform the emotion recognition tasks. Experiments were conducted on the benchmark dataset for emotion analysis using EEG, physiological, and video signals. The experimental results demonstrated that the global synchronization features and spatial characteristics are beneficial for recognizing emotions and the proposed deep learning model effectively mines and utilizes the two salient features.

scholarly journals An EEG Database and Its Initial Benchmark Emotion Classification Performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Ayan Seal ◽  
Puthi Prem Nivesh Reddy ◽  
Pingali Chaithanya ◽  
Arramada Meghana ◽  
Kamireddy Jahnavi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Affective Computing ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Classification Performance ◽  
Discrete Wavelet ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Emotion Classification ◽  
Eeg Signals ◽  
Learning Machine ◽  
Facial Images

Human emotion recognition has been a major field of research in the last decades owing to its noteworthy academic and industrial applications. However, most of the state-of-the-art methods identified emotions after analyzing facial images. Emotion recognition using electroencephalogram (EEG) signals has got less attention. However, the advantage of using EEG signals is that it can capture real emotion. However, very few EEG signals databases are publicly available for affective computing. In this work, we present a database consisting of EEG signals of 44 volunteers. Twenty-three out of forty-four are females. A 32 channels CLARITY EEG traveler sensor is used to record four emotional states namely, happy, fear, sad, and neutral of subjects by showing 12 videos. So, 3 video files are devoted to each emotion. Participants are mapped with the emotion that they had felt after watching each video. The recorded EEG signals are considered further to classify four types of emotions based on discrete wavelet transform and extreme learning machine (ELM) for reporting the initial benchmark classification performance. The ELM algorithm is used for channel selection followed by subband selection. The proposed method performs the best when features are captured from the gamma subband of the FP1-F7 channel with 94.72% accuracy. The presented database would be available to the researchers for affective recognition applications.

scholarly journals EEG-Based Emotion Recognition Using Logistic Regression with Gaussian Kernel and Laplacian Prior and Investigation of Critical Frequency Bands

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 1619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Pan ◽  
Cheng Shi ◽  
Honglang Mu ◽  
Jie Li ◽  
Xinbo Gao
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Affective Computing ◽  
Critical Frequency ◽  
Gaussian Kernel ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Emotion Classification ◽  
Frequency Bands ◽  
Video Signals ◽  
Valence And Arousal

Emotion plays a nuclear part in human attention, decision-making, and communication. Electroencephalogram (EEG)-based emotion recognition has developed a lot due to the application of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) and its effectiveness compared to body expressions and other physiological signals. Despite significant progress in affective computing, emotion recognition is still an unexplored problem. This paper introduced Logistic Regression (LR) with Gaussian kernel and Laplacian prior for EEG-based emotion recognition. The Gaussian kernel enhances the EEG data separability in the transformed space. The Laplacian prior promotes the sparsity of learned LR regressors to avoid over-specification. The LR regressors are optimized using the logistic regression via variable splitting and augmented Lagrangian (LORSAL) algorithm. For simplicity, the introduced method is noted as LORSAL. Experiments were conducted on the dataset for emotion analysis using EEG, physiological and video signals (DEAP). Various spectral features and features by combining electrodes (power spectral density (PSD), differential entropy (DE), differential asymmetry (DASM), rational asymmetry (RASM), and differential caudality (DCAU)) were extracted from different frequency bands (Delta, Theta, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Total) with EEG signals. The Naive Bayes (NB), support vector machine (SVM), linear LR with L1-regularization (LR_L1), linear LR with L2-regularization (LR_L2) were used for comparison in the binary emotion classification for valence and arousal. LORSAL obtained the best classification accuracies (77.17% and 77.03% for valence and arousal, respectively) on the DE features extracted from total frequency bands. This paper also investigates the critical frequency bands in emotion recognition. The experimental results showed the superiority of Gamma and Beta bands in classifying emotions. It was presented that DE was the most informative and DASM and DCAU had lower computational complexity with relatively ideal accuracies. An analysis of LORSAL and the recently deep learning (DL) methods is included in the discussion. Conclusions and future work are presented in the final section.

scholarly journals Framing Twitter Public Sentiment on Nigerian Government COVID-19 Palliatives Distribution Using Machine Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3497
Author(s):  
Hassan Adamu ◽  
Syaheerah Lebai Lutfi ◽  
Nurul Hashimah Ahamed Hassain Malim ◽  
Rohail Hassan ◽  
Assunta Di Vaio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Standard English ◽  
Emotion Classification ◽  
K Nearest Neighbor ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government

Sustainable development plays a vital role in information and communication technology. In times of pandemics such as COVID-19, vulnerable people need help to survive. This help includes the distribution of relief packages and materials by the government with the primary objective of lessening the economic and psychological effects on the citizens affected by disasters such as the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there has not been an efficient way to monitor public funds’ accountability and transparency, especially in developing countries such as Nigeria. The understanding of public emotions by the government on distributed palliatives is important as it would indicate the reach and impact of the distribution exercise. Although several studies on English emotion classification have been conducted, these studies are not portable to a wider inclusive Nigerian case. This is because Informal Nigerian English (Pidgin), which Nigerians widely speak, has quite a different vocabulary from Standard English, thus limiting the applicability of the emotion classification of Standard English machine learning models. An Informal Nigerian English (Pidgin English) emotions dataset is constructed, pre-processed, and annotated. The dataset is then used to classify five emotion classes (anger, sadness, joy, fear, and disgust) on the COVID-19 palliatives and relief aid distribution in Nigeria using standard machine learning (ML) algorithms. Six ML algorithms are used in this study, and a comparative analysis of their performance is conducted. The algorithms are Multinomial Naïve Bayes (MNB), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF), Logistics Regression (LR), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), and Decision Tree (DT). The conducted experiments reveal that Support Vector Machine outperforms the remaining classifiers with the highest accuracy of 88%. The “disgust” emotion class surpassed other emotion classes, i.e., sadness, joy, fear, and anger, with the highest number of counts from the classification conducted on the constructed dataset. Additionally, the conducted correlation analysis shows a significant relationship between the emotion classes of “Joy” and “Fear”, which implies that the public is excited about the palliatives’ distribution but afraid of inequality and transparency in the distribution process due to reasons such as corruption. Conclusively, the results from this experiment clearly show that the public emotions on COVID-19 support and relief aid packages’ distribution in Nigeria were not satisfactory, considering that the negative emotions from the public outnumbered the public happiness.

scholarly journals Different Machine Learning Classifiers for Music Emotion Recognition

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 2187-2191
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Naive Bayes ◽  
Naïve Bayes ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Bayes Classifier ◽  
Promising Alternative ◽  
Machine Learning Classifiers ◽  
Learning Classifiers ◽  
Statistical Metrics

Music in an essential part of life and the emotion carried by it is key to its perception and usage. Music Emotion Recognition (MER) is the task of identifying the emotion in musical tracks and classifying them accordingly. The objective of this research paper is to check the effectiveness of popular machine learning classifiers like XGboost, Random Forest, Decision Trees, Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-Nearest-Neighbour (KNN) and Gaussian Naive Bayes on the task of MER. Using the MIREX-like dataset [17] to test these classifiers, the effects of oversampling algorithms like Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE) [22] and Random Oversampling (ROS) were also verified. In all, the Gaussian Naive Bayes classifier gave the maximum accuracy of 40.33%. The other classifiers gave accuracies in between 20.44% and 38.67%. Thus, a limit on the classification accuracy has been reached using these classifiers and also using traditional musical or statistical metrics derived from the music as input features. In view of this, deep learning-based approaches using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) [13] and spectrograms of the music clips for MER is a promising alternative.

scholarly journals Emotion Recognition in Speech Using with SVM, DSVM and Auto-Encoder

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1021-1026
Author(s):  
Jeena Augustine
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients ◽  
Classification Rate ◽  
Signal Process ◽  
Common Technique ◽  
Audio Information ◽  
Deep Support

Abstract: Emotions recognition from the speech is one of the foremost vital subdomains within the sphere of signal process. during this work, our system may be a two-stage approach, particularly feature extraction, and classification engine. Firstly, 2 sets of options square measure investigated that are: thirty-nine Mel-frequency Cepstral coefficients (MFCC) and sixty-five MFCC options extracted supported the work of [20]. Secondly, we've got a bent to use the Support Vector Machine (SVM) because the most classifier engine since it is the foremost common technique within the sector of speech recognition. Besides that, we've a tendency to research the importance of the recent advances in machine learning along with the deep kerne learning, further because the numerous types of auto-encoders (the basic auto-encoder and also the stacked autoencoder). an oversized set of experiments unit conducted on the SAVEE audio information. The experimental results show that the DSVM technique outperforms the standard SVM with a classification rate of sixty-nine. 84% and 68.25% victimization thirty-nine MFCC, severally. To boot, the auto encoder technique outperforms the standard SVM, yielding a classification rate of 73.01%. Keywords: Emotion recognition, MFCC, SVM, Deep Support Vector Machine, Basic auto-encoder, Stacked Auto encode

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