EEG-GCN: Spatio-Temporal and Self-Adaptive Graph Convolutional Networks for Single and Multi-View EEG-Based Emotion Recognition

• Published in: IEEE signal processing letters Vol. 29; pp. 1574 - 1578
• Main Authors: Gao, Yue, Fu, Xiangling, Ouyang, Tianxiong, Wang, Yi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 2022; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Artificial neural networks; Brain; Brain modeling; Convolution; EEG; Electroencephalography; Emotion recognition; Emotions; Feature extraction; Frequency-domain analysis; graph convolutional neural network; Network topology; Redundancy; spatio-temporal attention mechanism; Topology
• ISSN: 1070-9908; 1558-2361
• DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2022.3179946

Graph networks are naturally suitable for modeling multi-channel features of EEG signals. However, the existing study that attempts to utilize graph-based neural networks for EEG-based emotion recognition doesn't take the spatio-temporal redundancy of EEG features and differences in brain topology into account. In this paper, we propose EEG-GCN, a paradigm that adopts spatio-temporal and self-adaptive graph convolutional networks for single and multi-view EEG-based emotion recognition. With spatio-temporal attention mechanism employed, EEG-GCN can adaptively capture significant sequential segments and spatial location information in EEG signals. Meanwhile, a self-adaptive brain network adjacency matrix is designed to quantify the connection strength between the channels, in which way to represent the diverse activation patterns under different emotion scenarios. Additionally, we propose a multi-view EEG-based emotion recognition method, which effectively integrates the diverse features of EEG signals. Extensive experiments conducted on two benchmark datasets SEED and DEAP demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms other representative methods from both single and multiple views.