Spatial-Frequency Based EEG Features for Classification of Human Emotions

Abstract

Human emotion classification without bias and unfairness is challenging because most existing image-based methods are directly or indirectly affected by subjectivity. Therefore, we propose an EEG (Electroencephalogram) based model for an accurate emotion classification without the effect of subjectivity. The captured EEG signals are converted into Delta, Theta, Alpha, Beta, and Gama frequency bands. As emotions change, the frequency bands change and provide unique patterns for each emotion irrespective of different persons. With this observation, the statical features, namely, mean, standard deviation, variance, and kurtosis, and frequency-based features, namely, Power Spectral Density (PSD) and Petrosian Fractal Dimension (PFD) are extracted. To integrate the strength of spatial and frequency-based features, the features are supplied to quadratic discriminative analysis for the final classification. The experiments on the benchmark datasets, DEAP and SEED-IV, achieve 99.40% and 91.97% accuracy, respectively. A comparison with state-of-the-art methods shows that the method performs very well on some datasets.