Emotion Recognition Based on EEG Using Generative Adversarial Nets and Convolutional Neural Network

Emotion recognition plays an important role in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). Automatic emotion recognition based on EEG is an important topic in brain-computer interface (BCI) applications. Currently, deep learning has been widely used in the field of EEG emotion recognition and has achieved remarkable results. However, due to the cost of data collection, most EEG datasets have only a small amount of EEG data, and the sample categories are unbalanced in these datasets. These problems will make it difficult for the deep learning model to predict the emotional state. In this paper, we propose a new sample generation method using generative adversarial networks to solve the problem of EEG sample shortage and sample category imbalance. In experiments, we explore the performance of emotion recognition with the frequency band correlation and frequency band separation computational models before and after data augmentation on standard EEG-based emotion datasets. Our experimental results show that the method of generative adversarial networks for data augmentation can effectively improve the performance of emotion recognition based on the deep learning model. And we find that the frequency band correlation deep learning model is more conducive to emotion recognition.