scholarly journals Emotion Recognition from EEG Signals Using Multidimensional Information in EMD Domain

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ning Zhuang ◽  
Ying Zeng ◽  
Li Tong ◽  
Chi Zhang ◽  
Hanming Zhang ◽  
...  

This paper introduces a method for feature extraction and emotion recognition based on empirical mode decomposition (EMD). By using EMD, EEG signals are decomposed into Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs) automatically. Multidimensional information of IMF is utilized as features, the first difference of time series, the first difference of phase, and the normalized energy. The performance of the proposed method is verified on a publicly available emotional database. The results show that the three features are effective for emotion recognition. The role of each IMF is inquired and we find that high frequency component IMF1 has significant effect on different emotional states detection. The informative electrodes based on EMD strategy are analyzed. In addition, the classification accuracy of the proposed method is compared with several classical techniques, including fractal dimension (FD), sample entropy, differential entropy, and discrete wavelet transform (DWT). Experiment results on DEAP datasets demonstrate that our method can improve emotion recognition performance.

Entropy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gao ◽  
Cui ◽  
Wan ◽  
Gu

Exploring the manifestation of emotion in electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is helpful for improving the accuracy of emotion recognition. This paper introduced the novel features based on the multiscale information analysis (MIA) of EEG signals for distinguishing emotional states in four dimensions based on Russell's circumplex model. The algorithms were applied to extract features on the DEAP database, which included multiscale EEG complexity index in the time domain, and ensemble empirical mode decomposition enhanced energy and fuzzy entropy in the frequency domain. The support vector machine and cross validation method were applied to assess classification accuracy. The classification performance of MIA methods (accuracy = 62.01%, precision = 62.03%, recall/sensitivity = 60.51%, and specificity = 82.80%) was much higher than classical methods (accuracy = 43.98%, precision = 43.81%, recall/sensitivity = 41.86%, and specificity = 70.50%), which extracted features contain similar energy based on a discrete wavelet transform, fractal dimension, and sample entropy. In this study, we found that emotion recognition is more associated with high frequency oscillations (51–100Hz) of EEG signals rather than low frequency oscillations (0.3–49Hz), and the significance of the frontal and temporal regions are higher than other regions. Such information has predictive power and may provide more insights into analyzing the multiscale information of high frequency oscillations in EEG signals.


Computers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Rania Alhalaseh ◽  
Suzan Alasasfeh

Many scientific studies have been concerned with building an automatic system to recognize emotions, and building such systems usually relies on brain signals. These studies have shown that brain signals can be used to classify many emotional states. This process is considered difficult, especially since the brain’s signals are not stable. Human emotions are generated as a result of reactions to different emotional states, which affect brain signals. Thus, the performance of emotion recognition systems by brain signals depends on the efficiency of the algorithms used to extract features, the feature selection algorithm, and the classification process. Recently, the study of electroencephalography (EEG) signaling has received much attention due to the availability of several standard databases, especially since brain signal recording devices have become available in the market, including wireless ones, at reasonable prices. This work aims to present an automated model for identifying emotions based on EEG signals. The proposed model focuses on creating an effective method that combines the basic stages of EEG signal handling and feature extraction. Different from previous studies, the main contribution of this work relies in using empirical mode decomposition/intrinsic mode functions (EMD/IMF) and variational mode decomposition (VMD) for signal processing purposes. Despite the fact that EMD/IMFs and VMD methods are widely used in biomedical and disease-related studies, they are not commonly utilized in emotion recognition. In other words, the methods used in the signal processing stage in this work are different from the methods used in literature. After the signal processing stage, namely in the feature extraction stage, two well-known technologies were used: entropy and Higuchi’s fractal dimension (HFD). Finally, in the classification stage, four classification methods were used—naïve Bayes, k-nearest neighbor (k-NN), convolutional neural network (CNN), and decision tree (DT)—for classifying emotional states. To evaluate the performance of our proposed model, experiments were applied to a common database called DEAP based on many evaluation models, including accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity. The experiments showed the efficiency of the proposed method; a 95.20% accuracy was achieved using the CNN-based method.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Ayan Seal ◽  
Puthi Prem Nivesh Reddy ◽  
Pingali Chaithanya ◽  
Arramada Meghana ◽  
Kamireddy Jahnavi ◽  
...  

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.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hema Kumar Goru ◽  
B Ramakrishna ◽  
Damodar Panigrahy

Abstract Surface Electroencephalography (EEG) is a non-invasive technique used for monitoring and recording the electrical activity of the human brain. Typically, the raw and unprocessed EEG signals are contaminated with various types of physiological artifacts originated from eye blinks and limb moments due to long haul monitoring. The removal of such low frequency motion artifacts in preprocessing techniques could potentially improves the accuracy of diagnosis. In this viewpoint, a multi-resolution analysis such as discrete wavelet transform (DWT) with empirical mode decomposition (EMD) is presented to filter the motion artifacts from the EEG signal. Initially, the low frequency components were separated from EEG signal using DWT decomposition technique and the same are passed to EMD to find intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). Using iterative thresholding algorithm the noisy IMF’s are filtered out, and these denoised approximated components are utilized to reconstruct the motion artifact free EEG signal. The proposed technique shows 15.3218 dB of △SNR, 41.9859% of Relative root mean square error (RRMSE) and the percentage reduction in correlation coefficient (%η) of 65.8213 by using Physionet data base.


2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 693-704
Author(s):  
Rafik Djemili

AbstractEpilepsy is a persistent neurological disorder impacting over 50 million people around the world. It is characterized by repeated seizures defined as brief episodes of involuntary movement that might entail the human body. Electroencephalography (EEG) signals are usually used for the detection of epileptic seizures. This paper introduces a new feature extraction method for the classification of seizure and seizure-free EEG time segments. The proposed method relies on the empirical mode decomposition (EMD), statistics and autoregressive (AR) parameters. The EMD method decomposes an EEG time segment into a finite set of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) from which statistical coefficients and autoregressive parameters are computed. Nevertheless, the calculated features could be of high dimension as the number of IMFs increases, the Student’s t-test and the Mann–Whitney U test were thus employed for features ranking in order to withdraw lower significant features. The obtained features have been used for the classification of seizure and seizure-free EEG signals by the application of a feed-forward multilayer perceptron neural network (MLPNN) classifier. Experimental results carried out on the EEG database provided by the University of Bonn, Germany, demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method which performance assessed by the classification accuracy (CA) is compared to other existing performances reported in the literature.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltán Germán-Salló

Abstract This study explores the data-driven properties of the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) for signal denoising. EMD is an acknowledged procedure which has been widely used for non-stationary and nonlinear signal processing. The main idea of the EMD method is to decompose the analyzed signal into components without using expansion functions. This is a signal dependent representation and provides intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) as components. These are analyzed, through their Hurst exponent and if they are found being noisy components they will be partially or integrally eliminated. This study presents an EMD decomposition-based filtering procedure applied to test signals, the results are evaluated through signal to noise ratio (SNR) and mean square error (MSE). The obtained results are compared with discrete wavelet transform based filtering results.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Nazmi Sofian Suhaimi ◽  
James Mountstephens ◽  
Jason Teo

Emotions are fundamental for human beings and play an important role in human cognition. Emotion is commonly associated with logical decision making, perception, human interaction, and to a certain extent, human intelligence itself. With the growing interest of the research community towards establishing some meaningful “emotional” interactions between humans and computers, the need for reliable and deployable solutions for the identification of human emotional states is required. Recent developments in using electroencephalography (EEG) for emotion recognition have garnered strong interest from the research community as the latest developments in consumer-grade wearable EEG solutions can provide a cheap, portable, and simple solution for identifying emotions. Since the last comprehensive review was conducted back from the years 2009 to 2016, this paper will update on the current progress of emotion recognition using EEG signals from 2016 to 2019. The focus on this state-of-the-art review focuses on the elements of emotion stimuli type and presentation approach, study size, EEG hardware, machine learning classifiers, and classification approach. From this state-of-the-art review, we suggest several future research opportunities including proposing a different approach in presenting the stimuli in the form of virtual reality (VR). To this end, an additional section devoted specifically to reviewing only VR studies within this research domain is presented as the motivation for this proposed new approach using VR as the stimuli presentation device. This review paper is intended to be useful for the research community working on emotion recognition using EEG signals as well as for those who are venturing into this field of research.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weifang Zhang ◽  
Meng Zhang ◽  
Yan Zhao ◽  
Bo Jin ◽  
Wei Dai

Damage detection using an FBG sensor is a critical process for an assessment of any inspection technology classified as structural health monitoring (SHM). FBG signals containing noise in experiments are developed to detect flaws. In this paper, we propose a novel signal denoising method that combines variational mode decomposition (VMD) and changed thresholding wavelets to denoise experimental and mixed signals. VMD is a recently introduced adaptive signal decomposition algorithm. Compared with traditional empirical mode decomposition (EMD), and it is well founded theoretically and more robust to noise samples. First, input signals were broken down into a given number of K band-limited intrinsic mode functions (BLIMFs) by VMD. For the purpose of avoiding the impact of overbinning or underbinning on VMD denoising, the mixed signals, which were obtained by adding different signal/noise ratio (SNR) noises to the experimental signals, were designed to select the best decomposition number K and data-fidelity constraint parameter α. After that, the realistic experimental signals were processed using four denoising algorithms to evaluate denoising performance. The results show that, upon adding additional noisy signals and realistic signals, the proposed algorithm delivers excellent performance over the EMD-based denoising method and discrete wavelet transform filtering.


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