Title
Multiple-output support vector machine regression with feature selection for arousal/valence space emotion assessment.
Abstract
Human emotion recognition (HER) allows the assessment of an affective state of a subject. Until recently, such emotional states were described in terms of discrete emotions, like happiness or contempt. In order to cover a high range of emotions, researchers in the field have introduced different dimensional spaces for emotion description that allow the characterization of affective states in terms of several variables or dimensions that measure distinct aspects of the emotion. One of the most common of such dimensional spaces is the bidimensional Arousal/Valence space. To the best of our knowledge, all HER systems so far have modelled independently, the dimensions in these dimensional spaces. In this paper, we study the effect of modelling the output dimensions simultaneously and show experimentally the advantages in modeling them in this way. We consider a multimodal approach by including features from the Electroencephalogram and a few physiological signals. For modelling the multiple outputs, we employ a multiple output regressor based on support vector machines. We also include an stage of feature selection that is developed within an embedded approach known as Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE), proposed initially for SVM. The results show that several features can be eliminated using the multiple output support vector regressor with RFE without affecting the performance of the regressor. From the analysis of the features selected in smaller subsets via RFE, it can be observed that the signals that are more informative into the arousal and valence space discrimination are the EEG, Electrooculogram/Electromiogram (EOG/EMG) and the Galvanic Skin Response (GSR).
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943754
EMBC
Keywords
Field
DocType
recursive feature elimination,discrete emotions,bidimensional arousal-valence space emotion assessment,electroencephalogram,electrooculogram-electromiogram,regression analysis,electroencephalography,medical signal processing,emotion recognition,svm,eog-emg,multiple output regressor,her systems,multiple-output support vector machine regression,galvanic skin response,feature selection,physiological signals,eeg,gsr,rfe,skin,support vector machines,human emotion recognition
Arousal,Feature selection,Computer science,Svm regression,Speech recognition,Artificial intelligence,Emotion assessment,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2014
1557-170X
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cristian A Torres-Valencia110.37
Mauricio A. Álvarez216523.80
Orozco-Gutierrez, A.A.320.72