A Dual-Modality Emotion Recognition System of EEG and Facial Images and its Application in Educational Scene

With the development of computer science, people's interactions with computers or through computers have become more frequent. Some human-computer interactions or human-to-human interactions that are often seen in daily life: online chat, online banking services, facial recognition functions, etc. Only through text messaging, however, can the effect of information transfer be reduced to around 30% of the original. Communication becomes truly efficient when we can see one other's reactions and feel each other's emotions. This issue is especially noticeable in the educational field. Offline teaching is a classic teaching style in which teachers may determine a student's present emotional state based on their expressions and alter teaching methods accordingly. With the advancement of computers and the impact of Covid-19, an increasing number of schools and educational institutions are exploring employing online or video-based instruction. In such circumstances, it is difficult for teachers to get feedback from students. Therefore, an emotion recognition method is proposed in this thesis that can be used for educational scenarios, which can help teachers quantify the emotional state of students in class and be used to guide teachers in exploring or adjusting teaching methods. Text, physiological signals, gestures, facial photographs, and other data types are commonly used for emotion recognition. Data collection for facial images emotion recognition is particularly convenient and fast among them, although there is a problem that people may subjectively conceal true emotions, resulting in inaccurate recognition results. Emotion recognition based on EEG waves can compensate for this drawback. Taking into account the aforementioned issues, this thesis first employs the SVM-PCA to classify emotions in EEG data, then employs the deep-CNN to classify the emotions of the subject's facial images. Finally, the D-S evidence theory is used for fusing and analyzing the two classification results and obtains the final emotion recognition accuracy of 92%. The specific research content of this thesis is as follows: 1) The background of emotion recognition systems used in teaching scenarios is discussed, as well as the use of various single modality systems for emotion recognition. 2) Detailed analysis of EEG emotion recognition based on SVM. The theory of EEG signal generation, frequency band characteristics, and emotional dimensions is introduced. The EEG signal is first filtered and processed with artifact removal. The processed EEG signal is then used for feature extraction using wavelet transforms. It is finally fed into the proposed SVM-PCA for emotion recognition and the accuracy is 64%. 3) Using the proposed deep-CNN to recognize emotions in facial images. Firstly, the Adaboost algorithm is used to detect and intercept the face area in the image, and the gray level balance is performed on the captured image. Then the preprocessed images are trained and tested using the deep-CNN, and the average accuracy is 88%. 4) Fusion method based on decision-making layer. The data fusion at the decision level is carried out with the results of EEG emotion recognition and facial expression emotion recognition. The final dual-modality emotion recognition results and system accuracy of 92% are obtained using D-S evidence theory. 5) The dual-modality emotion recognition system's data collection approach is designed. Based on the process, the actual data in the educational scene is collected and analyzed. The final accuracy of the dual-modality system is 82%. Teachers can use the emotion recognition results as a guide and reference to improve their teaching efficacy