Key result
Deep CNN-BLSTM model achieves ~92% accuracy for two-class cognitive workload estimation.
Why the study?
Poor spatial resolution in EEG signals often impairs cognitive workload classification features, creating a need for robust generative and attention-based deep models.
The proposed VAE-CBAM-based deep model effectively classifies cognitive workload states from EEG topographical videos with high accuracy.
May aid real-time cognitive assessment; leaves open prospective validation before clinical or operational use.
The estimation of cognitive workload using electroencephalogram (EEG) is an emerging research area. However, due to poor spatial resolution issues, features obtained from EEG signals often lead to poor classification results. As a good generative model, the variational autoencoder (VAE) extracts the noise-free robust features from the latent space that lead to better classification performance. The spatial attention-based method [convolutional block attention module (CBAM)] can improve the spatial resolution of EEG signals. In this article, we propose an effective VAE-CBAM-based deep model for estimating cognitive states from topographical videos. Topographical videos of four different conditions [baseline (BL), low workload (LW), medium workload (MW), and high workload (HW)] of the mental arithmetic task are taken for the experiment. Initially, the VAE extracts localized features from input images (extracted from topographical video), and CBAM infers the spatial–channel-level’s attention features from those localized features. Finally, the deep CNN-BLSTM model effectively learns those attention-based spatial features in a timely distributed manner to classify the cognitive state. For four-class and two-class classifications, the proposed model achieves 83.13% and 92.09% classification accuracy, respectively. The proposed model enhances the future research scope of attention-based studies in EEG applications.
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Chakladar et al. (2022) studied Cognitive workload. VAE-CBAM-based deep model (CNN-BLSTM) was evaluated on Classification accuracy for cognitive states. The proposed VAE-CBAM-based deep CNN-BLSTM model achieved 83.13% and 92.09% classification accuracy for four-class and two-class cognitive workload estimation, respectively.
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