Remarks on SVM-based emotion recognition from multi-modal bio-potential signals

This work proposes an emotion recognition system from multi-modal bio-potential signals. For emotion recognition, support vector machines (SVM) are applied to design the emotion classifier and its characteristics are investigated. Using gathered data under psychological emotion stimulation experiments, the classifier is trained and tested. In experiments of recognizing five emotion: joy, anger, sadness, happiness, and relax, recognition rate of 41.1% is achieved. The experimental result shows that using multi-modal bio-potential signals is feasible and that SVM is well suited for emotion recognition tasks.

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