Bispectral Analysis of EEG for Emotion Recognition

Abstract Emotion recognition from electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is one of the most challenging tasks. Bispectral analysis offers a way of gaining phase information by detecting phase relationships between frequency components and characterizing the non- Gaussian information contained in the EEG signals. In this paper, we explore derived features of bispectrum for quantification of emotions using a Valence-Arousal emotion model; and arrive at a feature vector through backward sequential search. Cross- validated accuracies of 64.84% for Low/High Arousal classification and 61.17% for Low/High Valence were obtained on the DEAP data set based on the proposed features; comparable to classification accuracies reported in the literature.

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