Functional Connectivity Network Based Emotion Recognition Combining Sample Entropy

Emotion recognition plays an indispensable role in the field of brain-computer interaction. Many researchers perform emotion recognition based on single channel feature extraction, which ignores the information interaction between different brain regions. In order to surmount this limitation, we propose a functional connectivity network based emotion recognition combining sample entropy (SE). Firstly, EEG data of DEAP is decomposed into four frequency bands of theta, alpha, beta, and gamma with WPT. Secondly, we build a functional connection network based on the phase synchronization index (PSI) and extract five features, namely global clustering coefficient, local clustering coefficient, global efficiency, character path length, and degree, then SE is extracted and combined with them. Finally, the extracted features are input into the random forest (RF) classifier for emotion classification. The experimental results on DEAP demonstrate that our proposed method is more effective for emotion recognition, and the best classification accuracy reaches 88.58%. Copyright (C) 2020 The Authors.