Authors:
Jonghwa Kim
and
Elisabeth André
Affiliation:
Institute of Computer Science, University of Augsburg, Germany
Keyword(s):
Biosignal, emotion recognition, physiological measures, skin conductance, electrocardiogram, electromyogram, respiration, affective computing, human-computer interaction, musical emotion, autonomic nervous system, arousal, valence, feature extraction, pattern recognition.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications and Services
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Artificial Intelligence
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Biomedical Engineering
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Biomedical Signal Processing
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Computational Intelligence
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Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
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Cybernetics and User Interface Technologies
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Data Manipulation
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Devices
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Health Engineering and Technology Applications
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Human-Computer Interaction
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Information and Systems Security
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Medical Image Detection, Acquisition, Analysis and Processing
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Methodologies and Methods
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Neurocomputing
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Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
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Pattern Recognition
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Physiological Computing Systems
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Physiological Processes and Bio-Signal Modeling, Non-Linear Dynamics
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Sensor Networks
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Soft Computing
Abstract:
This paper investigates the potential of physiological signals as a reliable channel for automatic recognition of user’s emotial state. For the emotion recognition, little attention has been paid so far to physiological signals compared to audio-visual emotion channels such as facial expression or speech. All essential stages of automatic recognition system using biosignals are discussed, from recording physiological dataset up to feature-based multiclass classification. Four-channel biosensors are used to measure electromyogram, electrocardiogram, skin conductivity and respiration changes. A wide range of physiological features from various analysis domains, including time/frequency, entropy, geometric analysis, subband spectra, multiscale entropy, etc., is proposed in order to search the best emotion-relevant features and to correlate them with emotional states. The best features extracted are specified in detail and their effectiveness is proven by emotion recognition results.