CNN-BiLSTM and DC-IGN fusion model and piecewise exponential attenuation optimization: an innovative approach to improve EEG emotion recognition performance

• Published in: Frontiers in computational neuroscience Vol. 19; p. 1589247
• Main Authors: Zhang, Shaohua, Feng, Yan, Chen, Ruzhen, Huang, Song, Wang, Qianchu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 16.06.2025
• Subjects: BiLSTM; CNN; DC-IGN; EEG emotion recognition; Neuroscience; piecewise exponential decay strategy; EEG emotion recognition; CNN; BiLSTM; DC-IGN; piecewise exponential decay strategy
• ISSN: 1662-5188; 1662-5188
• DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2025.1589247

EEG emotion recognition has important applications in human-computer interaction and mental health assessment, but existing models have limitations in capturing the complex spatial and temporal features of EEG signals. To overcome this problem, we propose an innovative model that combines CNN-BiLSTM and DC-IGN and fused both outputs for sentiment classification via a fully connected layer. In addition, we use a piecewise exponential decay strategy to optimize the training process. We conducted a comprehensive comparative experiment on the SEED and DEAP datasets, it includes traditional models, existing advanced models, and different combination models (such as CNN + LSTM, CNN + LSTM+DC-IGN). The results show that our model achieves 94.35% accuracy on SEED dataset, 89.84% on DEAP-valence, 90.31% on DEAP-arousal, which is significantly better than other models. In addition, we further verified the superiority of the model through subject independent experiment and learning rate scheduling strategy comparison experiment. These results not only improve the performance of EEG emotion recognition, but also provide new ideas and methods for research in related fields, and prove the significant advantages of our model in capturing complex features and improving classification accuracy.