Investigation of Human Emotion Pattern Based on EEG Signal Using Wavelet Families and Correlation Feature Selection

Emotions is one of the advantages given by God to human beings compared to other living creatures. Emotions have an important role in human life. Many studies have been conducted to recognize human emotions using physiological measurements, one of which is Electroencephalograph (EEG). However, the previous researches have not discussed the types of wavelet families that have the best performance and canals that are optimal in the introduction of human emotions. In this paper, the power features of several types of wavelet families, namely Daubechies, symlets, and coiflets with the Correlation Feature Selection (CFS) method to select the best features of alpha, beta, gamma and theta frequencies. According to the results, coiflet is a method of the wavelet family that has the best accuracy value in emotional recognition. The use of the CFS feature selection can improve the accuracy of the results from 81% to 93%, and the five most dominant channels in the power features of alpha and gamma band on T8, T7, C5, CP5, and TP7. Hence, it can be concluded that the temporal of the left brain is more dominant in recognition of human emotions.Emotions is one of the advantages given by God to human beings compared to other living creatures. Emotions have an important role in human life. Many studies have been conducted to recognize human emotions using physiological measurements, one of which is Electroencephalograph (EEG). However, the previous researches have not discussed the types of wavelet families that have the best performance and canals that are optimal in the introduction of human emotions. In this paper, the power features of several types of wavelet families, namely Daubechies, symlets, and coiflets with the Correlation Feature Selection (CFS) method to select the best features of alpha, beta, gamma and theta frequencies. According to the results, coiflet is a method of the wavelet family that has the best accuracy value in emotional recognition. The use of the CFS feature selection can improve the accuracy of the results from 81% to 93%, and the five most dominant channels in the power features of alpha and gamma band on T8, T7, C5, CP5, and TP7. Hence, it can be concluded that the temporal of the left brain is more dominant in recognition of human emotions

A Review on EEG Signals Based Emotion Recognition

Emotion recognition has become a very controversial issue in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Moreover, numerous studies have been conducted in order to recognize emotions. Also, there are several important definitions and theories about human emotions. In this paper we try to cover important topics related to the field of emotion recognition. We review several studies which are based on analyzing electroencephalogram (EEG) signals as a biological marker in emotion changes. Considering low cost, good time and spatial resolution, EEG has become very common and is widely used in most BCI applications and studies. First, we state some theories and basic definitions related to emotions. Then some important steps of an emotion recognition system like different kinds of biologic measurements (EEG, electrocardiogram [EEG], respiration rate, etc), offline vs online recognition methods, emotion stimulation types and common emotion models are described. Finally, the recent and most important studies are reviewed

Emotional State Recognition Based on Physiological Signals

Emotsionaalsete seisundite tuvastamine on väga tähtis inimese ja arvuti vahelise suhtlemise (Human-Computer Interaction, HCI) jaoks. Tänapäeval leiavad masinõppe meetodid ühe enam rakendust paljudes inimtegevuse valdkondades. Viimased uuringud näitavad, et füsioloogiliste signaalide analüüs masinõppe meetoditega võiks võimaldada inimese emotsionaalse seisundi tuvastamist hea täpsusega. Vaadates emotsionaalse sisuga videosid, või kuulates helisid, tekib inimesel spetsifiline füsiloogiline vastus. Antud uuringus me kasutame masinõpet ja heuristilist lähenemist, et tuvastada emotsionaalseid seisundeid füsioloogiliste signaalide põhjal. Meetodite võrdlus näitas, et kõrgeim täpsus saavutati juhuslike metsade (Random Forest) meetodiga rakendades seda EEG signaalile, mis teisendati sagedusintervallideks. Ka kombineerides EEG-d teiste füsioloogiliste signaalidega oli tuvastamise täpsus suhteliselt kõrge. Samas heuristilised meetodid ja EEG signaali klassifitseerimise rekurrentse närvivõrkude abil ebaõnnestusid. Andmeallikaks oli MAHNOB-HCI mitmemodaalne andmestik, mis koosneb 27 isikult kogutud füsioloogilistest signaalidest, kus igaüks neist vaatas 20 emotsionaalset videolõiku. Ootamatu tulemusena saime teada, et klassikaline Eckman'i emotsionaalsete seisundite nimekiri oli parem emotsioonide kirjeldamiseks ja klassifitseerimiseks kui kaasaegne mudel, mis esitab emotsioone valentsuse ja ärrituse teljestikul. Meie töö näitab, et emotsiooni märgistamise meetod on väga tähtis hea klassifitseerimismudeli loomiseks, ning et kasutatav andmestik peab sobima masinõppe meetodite jaoks. Saadud tulemused võivad aidata valida õigeid füsioloogilisi signaale ja emotsioonide märkimise meetodeid uue andmestiku loomisel ja töötlemisel.Emotional state recognition is a crucial task for achieving a new level of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Machine Learning applications penetrate more and more spheres of everyday life. Recent studies are showing promising results in analyzing physiological signals (EEG, ECG, GSR) using Machine Learning for accessing emotional state. Commonly, specific emotion is invoked by playing affective videos or sounds. However, there is no canonical way for emotional state interpretation. In this study, we classified affective physiological signals with labels obtained from two emotional state estimation approaches using machine learning algorithms and heuristic formulas. Comparison of the method has shown that the highest accuracy was achieved using Random Forest classifier on spectral features from the EEG records, a combination of features for the peripheral physiological signal also shown relatively high classification performance. However, heuristic formulas and novel approach for ECG signal classification using recurrent neural network ultimately failed. Data was taken from the MAHNOB-HCI dataset which is a multimodal database collected on 27 subjects by showing 20 emotional movie fragment`s. We obtained an unexpected result, that description of emotional states using discrete Eckman's paradigm provides better classification results comparing to the contemporary dimensional model which represents emotions by matching them onto the Cartesian plane with valence and arousal axis. Our study shows the importance of label selection in emotion recognition task. Moreover, obtained dataset have to be suitable for Machine Learning algorithms. Acquired results may help to select proper physiological signals and emotional labels for further dataset creation and post-processing