scholarly journals Artificial Neural Networks to Assess Emotional States from Brain-Computer Interface

Electronics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Sánchez-Reolid ◽  
Arturo García ◽  
Miguel Vicente-Querol ◽  
Luz Fernández-Aguilar ◽  
María López ◽  
...  

Estimation of human emotions plays an important role in the development of modern brain-computer interface devices like the Emotiv EPOC+ headset. In this paper, we present an experiment to assess the classification accuracy of the emotional states provided by the headset’s application programming interface (API). In this experiment, several sets of images selected from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) dataset are shown to sixteen participants wearing the headset. Firstly, the participants’ responses in form of a self-assessment manikin questionnaire to the emotions elicited are compared with the validated IAPS predefined valence, arousal and dominance values. After statistically demonstrating that the responses are highly correlated with the IAPS values, several artificial neural networks (ANNs) based on the multilayer perceptron architecture are tested to calculate the classification accuracy of the Emotiv EPOC+ API emotional outcomes. The best result is obtained for an ANN configuration with three hidden layers, and 30, 8 and 3 neurons for layers 1, 2 and 3, respectively. This configuration offers 85% classification accuracy, which means that the emotional estimation provided by the headset can be used with high confidence in real-time applications that are based on users’ emotional states. Thus the emotional states given by the headset’s API may be used with no further processing of the electroencephalogram signals acquired from the scalp, which would add a level of difficulty.

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 469
Author(s):  
I Gusti Ngurah Alit Indrawan ◽  
I Made Widiartha

Artificial Neural Networks or commonly abbreviated as ANN is one branch of science from the field of artificial intelligence which is often used to solve various problems in fields that involve grouping and pattern recognition. This research aims to classify Letter Recognition datasets using Artificial Neural Networks which are weighted optimally using the Artificial Bee Colony algorithm. The best classification accuracy results from this study were 92.85% using a combination of 4 hidden layers with each hidden layer containing 10 neurons.


Sensors ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 1721-1743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birsel Ayrulu-Erdem ◽  
Billur Barshan

We extract the informative features of gyroscope signals using the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) decomposition and provide them as input to multi-layer feed-forward artificial neural networks (ANNs) for leg motion classification. Since the DWT is based on correlating the analyzed signal with a prototype wavelet function, selection of the wavelet type can influence the performance of wavelet-based applications significantly. We also investigate the effect of selecting different wavelet families on classification accuracy and ANN complexity and provide a comparison between them. The maximum classification accuracy of 97.7% is achieved with the Daubechies wavelet of order 16 and the reverse bi-orthogonal (RBO) wavelet of order 3.1, both with similar ANN complexity. However, the RBO 3.1 wavelet is preferable because of its lower computational complexity in the DWTdecomposition and reconstruction.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 2327
Author(s):  
Ming-Der Yang ◽  
Kai-Hsiang Huang ◽  
Hui-Ping Tsai

The critical issue facing hyperspectral image (HSI) classification is the imbalance between dimensionality and the number of available training samples. This study attempted to solve the issue by proposing an integrating method using minimum noise fractions (MNF) and Hilbert–Huang transform (HHT) transformations into artificial neural networks (ANNs) for HSI classification tasks. MNF and HHT function as a feature extractor and image decomposer, respectively, to minimize influences of noises and dimensionality and to maximize training sample efficiency. Experimental results using two benchmark datasets, Indian Pine (IP) and Pavia University (PaviaU) hyperspectral images, are presented. With the intention of optimizing the number of essential neurons and training samples in the ANN, 1 to 1000 neurons and four proportions of training sample were tested, and the associated classification accuracies were evaluated. For the IP dataset, the results showed a remarkable classification accuracy of 99.81% with a 30% training sample from the MNF1–14+HHT-transformed image set using 500 neurons. Additionally, a high accuracy of 97.62% using only a 5% training sample was achieved for the MNF1–14+HHT-transformed images. For the PaviaU dataset, the highest classification accuracy was 98.70% with a 30% training sample from the MNF1–14+HHT-transformed image using 800 neurons. In general, the accuracy increased as the neurons increased, and as the training samples increased. However, the accuracy improvement curve became relatively flat when more than 200 neurons were used, which revealed that using more discriminative information from transformed images can reduce the number of neurons needed to adequately describe the data as well as reducing the complexity of the ANN model. Overall, the proposed method opens new avenues in the use of MNF and HHT transformations for HSI classification with outstanding accuracy performance using an ANN.


Author(s):  
Andrey Bondarenko ◽  
Arkady Borisov ◽  
Ludmila Alekseeva

<p class="R-AbstractKeywords">Artificial neural networks (ANN) are well known for their good classification abilities. Recent advances in deep learning imposed second ANN renaissance. But neural networks possesses some problems like choosing hyper parameters such as neuron layers count and sizes which can greatly influence classification rate. Thus pruning techniques were developed that can reduce network sizes, increase its generalization abilities and overcome overfitting. Pruning approaches, in contrast to growing neural networks approach, assume that sufficiently large ANN is already trained and can be simplified with acceptable classification accuracy loss.</p><p class="R-AbstractKeywords">Current paper compares nodes vs weights pruning algorithms and gives experimental results for pruned networks accuracy rates versus their non-pruned counterparts. We conclude that nodes pruning is more preferable solution, with some sidenotes.</p>


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 2954-2957
Author(s):  
S. Khan ◽  
S. A. Ali ◽  
J. Sallar

Emotion plays a significant role in identifying the states of a speaker using spoken utterances. Prosodic features add sense in spoken utterances providing speaker emotions. The objective of this research is to analyze the behavior of prosodic features (individual and in combination with others’ prosodic features) with different learning classifiers on emotion based utterances of children in the Urdu language. In this paper, three different prosodic features (intensity, pitch, formant and their combinations) with five different learning classifiers(ANN, J-48, K-star, Naïve Bayes, decision stump) and four basic emotions (happy, sad, angry, and neutral) were used to develop the experimental framework. Demonstrative experiments expressed that, in terms of classification accuracy, artificial neural networks show significant results with both individual and combination of prosodic features in comparison with other learning classifiers.


2011 ◽  
pp. 177-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markad V. Kamath ◽  
Adrian R. Upton ◽  
Jie Wu ◽  
Harjeet S. Bajaj ◽  
Skip Poehlman ◽  
...  

The artificial neural networks (ANNs) are regularly employed in EEG signal processing because of their effectiveness as pattern classifiers. In this chapter, four specific applications will be studied: On a day to day basis, ANNs can assist in identifying abnormal EEG activity in patients with neurological diseases such as epilepsy, Huntington’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease. The ANNs can reduce the time taken for interpretation of physiological signals such as EEG, respiration, and ECG recorded during sleep. During an invasive surgical procedure, the ANNs can provide objective parameters derived from the EEG to help determine the depth of anesthesia. The ANNs have made significant contributions toward extracting embedded signals within the EEG which can be used to control external devices. This rapidly developing field, which is called brain-computer interface, has a large number of applications in empowering handicapped individuals to independently operate appliances, neuroprosthesis, or orthosis.


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