A FRACTAL-BASED ALGORITHM OF EMOTION RECOGNITION FROM EEG USING AROUSAL-VALENCE MODEL

Olga Sourina, Yisi Liu

2011

Abstract

Emotion recognition from EEG could be used in many applications as it allows us to know the “inner” emotion regardless of the human facial expression, behaviour, or verbal communication. In this paper, we proposed and described a novel fractal dimension (FD) based emotion recognition algorithm using an Arousal-Valence emotion model. FD values calculated from the EEG signal recorded from the corresponding brain lobes are mapped to the 2D emotion model. The proposed algorithm allows us to recognize emotions that could be defined by arousal and valence levels. Only 3 electrodes are needed for the emotions recognition. Higuchi and box-counting algorithms were used for the EEG analysis and comparison. Support Vector Machine classifier was applied for arousal and valence levels recognition. The proposed method is a subject dependent one. Experiments with music and sound stimuli to induce human emotions were realized. Sound clips from the International Affective Digitized Sounds (IADS) database were used in the experiments.

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Sourina O. and Liu Y. (2011). A FRACTAL-BASED ALGORITHM OF EMOTION RECOGNITION FROM EEG USING AROUSAL-VALENCE MODEL . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-35-5, pages 209-214. DOI: 10.5220/0003151802090214


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@conference{biosignals11,
author={Olga Sourina and Yisi Liu},
title={A FRACTAL-BASED ALGORITHM OF EMOTION RECOGNITION FROM EEG USING AROUSAL-VALENCE MODEL },
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={209-214},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003151802090214},
isbn={978-989-8425-35-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2011)
TI - A FRACTAL-BASED ALGORITHM OF EMOTION RECOGNITION FROM EEG USING AROUSAL-VALENCE MODEL
SN - 978-989-8425-35-5
AU - Sourina O.
AU - Liu Y.
PY - 2011
SP - 209
EP - 214
DO - 10.5220/0003151802090214