Analytical Comparison of Two Emotion Classification Models Based on Convolutional Neural Networks

Electroencephalography (EEG) is the measurement of neuronal activity in different areas of the brain through the use of electrodes. As EEG signal technology has matured over the years, it has been applied in various methods to EEG emotion recognition, most significantly including the use of convolutional neural network (CNN). However, these methods are still not ideal, and shortcomings have been found in the results of some models of EEG feature extraction and classification. In this study, two CNN models were selected for the extraction and classification of preprocessed data, namely, common spatial patterns‐ (CSP‐) CNN and wavelet transform‐ (WT‐) CNN. Using the CSP‐CNN, we first used the common space model to reduce dimensionality and then applied the CNN directly to extract and classify the features of the EEG; while, with the WT‐CNN model, we used the wavelet transform to extract EEG features, thereafter applying the CNN for classification. The EEG classification results of these two classification models were subsequently analyzed and compared, with the average classification accuracy of the CSP‐CNN model found to be 80.56%, and the average classification accuracy of the WT‐CNN model measured to 86.90%. Thus, the findings of this study show that the average classification accuracy of the WT‐CNN model was 6.34% higher than that of the CSP‐CNN.