EEG-based Emotion Recognition on Unstable Patterns over Time

In brain-computer interface (BCI) systems, users' emotion can be recognized by using electroencephalography (EEG) data. Recent researches proposed different methods for feature extraction and EEG-based emotion classification. However, EEG data collected over time is not always stable and accuracies of emotion recognition are found not robust. In this paper, a novel EEG emotion recognition system is proposed by combining ReliefF for extracting features, and Long Short-Term Memory Network coupled with Support Vector Machine for classification. A public EEG emotion dataset of SEED which contains three different recordings of EEG data is used in the experiments. It is shown that the proposed network is effective for mitigating the phenomenon of unstable accuracies, and achieves higher emotion classification accuracies compared to other approaches using the same dataset.