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Subject Independent Emotion Recognition using EEG Signals Employing Attention Driven Neural Networks
In the recent past, deep learning-based approaches have significantly
improved the classification accuracy when compared to classical signal
processing and machine learning based frameworks. But most of them were
subject-dependent studies which were not able to generalize on the
subject-independent tasks due to the inter-subject variability present in EEG
data. In this work, a novel deep learning framework capable of doing
subject-independent emotion recognition is presented, consisting of two parts.
First, an unsupervised Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) with channel-attention
autoencoder is proposed for getting a subject-invariant latent vector subspace
i.e., intrinsic variables present in the EEG data of each individual. Secondly,
a convolutional neural network (CNN) with attention framework is presented for
performing the task of subject-independent emotion recognition on the encoded
lower dimensional latent space representations obtained from the proposed LSTM
with channel-attention autoencoder. With the attention mechanism, the proposed
approach could highlight the significant time-segments of the EEG signal, which
contributes to the emotion under consideration as validated by the results. The
proposed approach has been validated using publicly available datasets for EEG
signals such as DEAP dataset, SEED dataset and CHB-MIT dataset. The proposed
end-to-end deep learning framework removes the requirement of different hand
engineered features and provides a single comprehensive task agnostic EEG
analysis tool capable of performing various kinds of EEG analysis on subject
independent data.Comment: Under Review in Elsevier Biomedical Signal Processing and Contro