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Classification of human emotions based on electroencephalography (EEG) is a very popular topic nowadays in the provision of human health care and well-being. Fast and effective emotion recognition can play an important role in understanding a patient's emotions and in monitoring stress levels in real-time. Due to the noisy and non-linear nature of the EEG signal, it is still difficult to understand emotions and can generate large feature vectors. In this article, we have proposed an efficient spatial feature extraction and feature selection method with a short processing time. The raw EEG signal is first divided into a smaller set of eigenmode functions called (IMF) using the empirical model-based decomposition proposed in our work, known as intensive multivariate empirical mode decomposition (iMEMD). The Spatio-temporal analysis is performed with Complex Continuous Wavelet Transform (CCWT) to collect all the information in the time and frequency domains. The multiple model extraction method uses three deep neural networks (DNNs) to extract features and dissect them together to have a combined feature vector. To overcome the computational curse, we propose a method of differential entropy and mutual information, which further reduces feature size by selecting high-quality features and pooling the k-means results to produce less dimensional qualitative feature vectors. The system seems complex, but once the network is trained with this model, real-time application testing and validation with good classification performance is fast. The proposed method for selecting attributes for benchmarking is validated with two publicly available data sets, SEED, and DEAP. This method is less expensive to calculate than more modern sentiment recognition methods, provides real-time sentiment analysis, and offers good classification accuracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Affects recognition and regulation has become an interesting research topic given the noninvasive application of electroencephalography (EEG). EEG patterns are generated through electrical activity over the human scalp, but the collected data from these sensors are quite complex due to noise and artifacts. Given the complex nature of human brain signals, emotion recognition and regulation are still challenging problems. By emphasizing and aiming to improve the human living, how could be possible to prevent emotional or behavioral disorder in children in their early age? Therefore, it is essential to investigate the children’s emotions. In this study, we present a mechanism to regulate children’s emotions. Over 40 subjects’ EEG data were collected and performed a late-positive-potential (LPP) analysis in EEGLAB. By investigating late positive potential during emotion regulatory analysis, we find a significant difference in modulation and amplitude between control/special subjects that may help in early detection of mood disruption problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Human computer interaction is a growing field in terms of helping people in their daily life to improve their living. Especially, people with some disability may need an interface which is more appropriate and compatible with their needs. Our research is focused on similar kinds of problems, such as students with some mental disorder or mood disruption problems. To improve their learning process, an intelligent emotion recognition system is essential which has an ability to recognize the current emotional state of the brain. Nowadays, in special schools, instructors are commonly use some conventional methods for managing special students for educational purposes. In this paper, we proposed a novel computer aided method for instructors at special schools where they can teach special students with the support of our system using wearable technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• This study provides detailed analysis of well-known datasets for EEG-based human emotions in arousal-valence domain. • The proposed method extracts the EEG feature-sets by using Hjorth-parameters under a frequency range between 4–45 Hz, and further selected optimal features by using the bagged-decision trees. • Hjorth-activity with random-forest were shown the best emotion recognition rates of approx. 69%, 76%, 85%, 59%, 87% for DEAP, SEED-IV, DREAMER, SELEMO, ASCERTAIN, respectively. • This study helps researchers to further analyze internal brain states and the external context-sensitive understandings of human emotions. EEG-based emotion recognition enables investigation of human brain activity, which is recognized as an important factor in brain-computer interface. In recent years, several methods have been studied to find optimal features from brain signals. The main limitation of existing studies is that either they consider very few emotion classes or they employ a large feature set. To overcome these issues, we propose a novel Hjorth-feature-based emotion recognition model. Unlike other methods, our proposed method explores a wider set of emotion classes in the arousal-valence domain. To reduce the dimension of the feature set, we employ Hjorth parameters (HPs) and analyze the parameters in the frequency domain. At the same time, our study was focused to maintain the accuracy of emotion recognition for four emotional classes. The average accuracy was approximately 69%, 76%, 85%, 59%, and 87% for DEAP, SEED-IV, DREAMER, SELEMO, and ASCERTAIN, respectively. Results show that the features from HP activity with random forest outperforms all the classic methods of EEG-based emotion recognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Emotional awareness perception is a largely growing field that allows for more natural interactions between people and machines. Electroencephalography (EEG) has emerged as a convenient way to measure and track a user's emotional state. The non-linear characteristic of the EEG signal produces a high-dimensional feature vector resulting in high computational cost. In this paper, characteristics of multiple neural networks are combined using Deep Feature Clustering (DFC) to select high-quality attributes as opposed to traditional feature selection methods. The DFC method shortens the training time on the network by omitting unusable attributes. First, Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) is applied as a series of frequencies to decompose the raw EEG signal. The spatiotemporal component of the decomposed EEG signal is expressed as a two-dimensional spectrogram before the feature extraction process using Analytic Wavelet Transform (AWT). Four pre-trained Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are used to extract deep features. Dimensional reduction and feature selection are achieved utilising the differential entropy-based EEG channel selection and the DFC technique, which calculates a range of vocabularies using k-means clustering. The histogram characteristic is then determined from a series of visual vocabulary items. The classification performance of the SEED, DEAP and MAHNOB datasets combined with the capabilities of DFC show that the proposed method improves the performance of emotion recognition in short processing time and is more competitive than the latest emotion recognition methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]