Cross-Subject EEG Emotion Recognition Using Domain Adaptive Few-Shot Learning Networks

Due to the individual differences and nonstationary of EEG signals, it is difficult to classify EEG emotions with traditional machine methods, which assume that the training and testing set come from the same data distribution, but this assumption is usually not true in the EEG field, therefore the accuracy of emotion recognition is very poor. In this paper, a Single-Source Domain Adaptive Few-Shot Learning Networks (SDA-FSL) was proposed for cross-subject EEG emotion recognition. This is the first time that domain adaptation method with few-shot learning has been used in the field of EEG emotion recognition. A CBAM-based feature mapping module was designed to extract the common features of the two domains, and the domain adaptation module was used to align the data distribution of two domains. In addition, Prototypical Networks with instance-attention mechanism is introduced to preserve domain-specific information. The proposed method was evaluated on DEAP and SEED datasets in within-dataset and cross-dataset experiments under various N-way k-shot settings. Experimental results show that the performance of SDA-FSL outperforms other comparison methods and has superior generalization performance on cross-dataset experiments.