Self supervised learning based emotion recognition using physiological signals

Abstract

IntroductionThe significant role of emotional recognition in the field of human-machine interaction has garnered the attention of many researchers. Emotion recognition based on physiological signals can objectively reflect the most authentic emotional states of humans. However, existing labeled Electroencephalogram (EEG) datasets are often of small scale.MethodsIn practical scenarios, a large number of unlabeled EEG signals are easier to obtain. Therefore, this paper adopts self-supervised learning methods to study emotion recognition based on EEG. Specifically, experiments employ three pre-defined tasks to define pseudo-labels and extract features from the inherent structure of the data.Results and discussionExperimental results indicate that self-supervised learning methods have the capability to learn effective feature representations for downstream tasks without any manual labels.