Stress Detection Using Wearable Devices based on Transfer Learning

Excessive stress will have a negative impact on people’s physical and mental health, especially for some special occupations. Because stressful stimuli can trigger a variety of physiological responses, analyzing physiological signals collected by wearable devices has become an important way to evaluate the stress state in recent years. However, the number of available subjects of a target group may be small, and collecting a large amount of data when the target group changes is costly and time-consuming. To solve this problem, we propose a stress detection framework for a small target group which uses adversarial transfer learning method to learn shared knowledge about stress between different groups. In order to verify the performance of the framework, we establish a dataset consisting of 264 ordinary college students and 32 police school students, aiming to evaluate the acute stress state of police school students under video stimuli for psychological training in the future. Comprehensive experiments show that our algorithm has achieved a significant improvement in the target group compared with the baseline methods.