Sleep arousals transition the depth of sleep to a more superficial stage. The occurrence of such events is often considered as a protective mechanism to alert the body of harmful stimuli. Thus, accurate sleep arousal detection can lead to an enhanced understanding of the underlying causes and influencing the assessment…
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This research improves EEG-based MI-BCI systems to be more resilient to emotional arousal.
problem Lack of robustness in EEG-based MI-BCI systems due to emotional arousal.
method Subjects were exposed to VR environments to induce high and low arousal states. Machine learning models were trained on proxy subjects instead of arousal states. MI models were trained for each subject.
result MI-BCI systems are made more resilient to emotional perturbations.
Project uses GANs to recognize facial expressions and emotions from-the-wild with dual model approach.
problem Facial expression and emotion recognition in real-world scenarios.
method Created a dual GAN model architecture for Action Units and Valence Arousal annotations.
result Dual GAN model achieved better results than single model for emotion recognition.
Objective: The aim of this study is to develop an automated classification algorithm for polysomnography (PSG) recordings to detect non-apneic and non-hypopneic arousals. Our particular focus is on detecting the respiratory effort-related arousals (RERAs) which are very subtle respiratory events that do not meet the cr…
In this work, a dense recurrent convolutional neural network (DRCNN) was constructed to detect sleep disorders including arousal, apnea and hypopnea using Polysomnography (PSG) measurement channels provided in the 2018 Physionet challenge database. Our model structure is composed of multiple dense convolutional units (…
Aff-Wild database expands facial expression recognition to real-world conditions.
problem Lack of spontaneous facial expression databases in real-world conditions.
method Collects spontaneous facial expressions from YouTube, annotates with valence and arousal, uses deep learning techniques.
result Developed an end-to-end DNN model achieving 0.555 CCC for valence and 0.499 CCC for arousal.
Sleep disorders are implicated in a growing number of health problems. In this paper, we present a signal-processing/machine learning approach to detecting arousals in the multi-channel polysomnographic recordings of the Physionet/CinC Challenge2018 dataset. Methods: Our network architecture consists of two components.…
StarGAN model generates and recognizes emotions from facial expressions.
problem Emotion recognition and generation from facial expressions.
method Used StarGAN model to train on a new emotion dataset of 4K videos.
result Trained StarGAN model can generate and recognize emotions based on valence arousal scores.
Deep transfer learning boosts single-EEG arousal detection accuracy.
problem Challenges in machine learning due to channel mismatch across different EEG datasets.
method Transfer learning strategy to adapt a multivariate model to single-channel EEG data.
result Fine-tuned model achieves similar performance to baseline model and significantly outperforms a single-channel model.
Project creates new dataset for 'in the wild' emotions recognition.
problem Recognition of emotions in real-life unpredictable situations.
method Design and implement a new dataset and deep learning model.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of the new deep learning model for real-life emotions recognition.
Music FaderNets learns high-level musical qualities from low-level attributes.
problem Learning high-level musical qualities from limited data and subjective labels.
method Model low-level attributes through feature disentanglement and latent regularization; infer high-level features from low-level representations using GM-VAEs.
result Model successfully learns intrinsic relationships between high-level features and low-level attributes with minimal labeled data.
We consider the task of multimodal music mood prediction based on the audio signal and the lyrics of a track. We reproduce the implementation of traditional feature engineering based approaches and propose a new model based on deep learning. We compare the performance of both approaches on a database containing 18,000 …
Asymptotic raysmath.GT
We prove that a graph G is asymptotically isomorphic to the ray if and only if G is uniformly spherically bounded and is of bounded local degrees. This problem arouse in combinatorics and was posed in [3] (Problem 10.1).
New model recognizes emotions with missing modalities, improving accuracy.
problem Handling missing modalities in emotion recognition.
method Transformer-based architecture with cross-attention and self-attention mechanisms.
result Improvement of 37% in predicting arousal values and 30% in valence values compared to baseline.
In this research, an emotion recognition system is developed based on valence/arousal model using electroencephalography (EEG) signals. EEG signals are decomposed into the gamma, beta, alpha and theta frequency bands using discrete wavelet transform (DWT), and spectral features are extracted from each frequency band. P…
Interpretable Deep Neural Networks for Dimensional and Categorical Emotion Recognition in-the-wildcs.LG
Project extends emotion recognition database and trains neural networks for categorical and dimensional emotions.
problem Understanding and recognizing emotions for human-computer interaction, safety, and medical research.
method Training CNN + RNN models with emotion category and valence/arousal representations, comparing three model types.
result Categorical emotion recognition performance improves with combined model training.
This short paper describes our solution to the 2018 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence One-Minute Gradual-Emotional Behavior Challenge, whose goal was to estimate continuous arousal and valence values from short videos. We designed four base regression models using visual and audio features, and then use…
In this paper we propose a fusion approach to continuous emotion recognition that combines visual and auditory modalities in their representation spaces to predict the arousal and valence levels. The proposed approach employs a pre-trained convolution neural network and transfer learning to extract features from video …
This paper describes audEERING's submissions as well as additional evaluations for the One-Minute-Gradual (OMG) emotion recognition challenge. We provide the results for audio and video processing on subject (in)dependent evaluations. On the provided Development set, we achieved 0.343 Concordance Correlation Coefficien…
A Multi-Task Learning & Generation Framework: Valence-Arousal, Action Units & Primary Expressionscs.CV
Over the past few years many research efforts have been devoted to the field of affect analysis. Various approaches have been proposed for: i) discrete emotion recognition in terms of the primary facial expressions; ii) emotion analysis in terms of facial Action Units (AUs), assuming a fixed expression intensity; iii) …
Much attention has been given to automatic sleep staging algorithms in past years, but the detection of discrete events in sleep studies is also crucial for precise characterization of sleep patterns and possible diagnosis of sleep disorders. We propose here a deep learning model for automatic detection and annotation …
This research improves emotion detection from speech, enhancing CCC by 30%.
problem Improving emotion detection from speech for categorical emotions.
method Used LSTM and TC-LSTM networks, trained with multiple datasets and robust features.
result Improved CCC for valence by 30% compared to baseline.
First ABAW 2020 Competition analyzes affective behavior tasks.
problem Automatic analysis of valence-arousal, basic expressions, and action units in real-world scenarios.
method Provided Aff-Wild2 database, described Challenges, evaluation metrics, and top-performing systems.
result Demonstrated the feasibility of automatic affective behavior analysis in real-world settings.
Deep learning framework detects emotions from EEG data.
problem Detecting emotions from EEG signals.
method Temporal and spatial convolutional layers learn discriminative representations.
result TSception achieves 86.03% classification accuracy, significantly outperforming other methods.
Model improves emotion recognition using multiple physiological signals.
problem Single physiological signal is insufficient for accurate emotion recognition.
method Fused multiple modal physiological signals (EEG, EMG, EOG) for emotion classification.
result Best classification accuracy of 94.42% on arousal and 94.02% on valence in two-class tasks.
1-D Convlutional Neural Networks for the Analysis of Pupil Size Variations in Scotopic Conditionseess.IV
1-D CNNs classify pupil size variations in scotopic conditions.
problem Handling wide inter-subjects variability in pupil analysis.
method 1-D Convolutional Neural Networks applied directly to raw pupil size data.
result 1-D CNNs provide high accuracy in classifying short-range pupil size sequences.
A deep neural network detects sleep events in polysomnograms with high accuracy.
problem Manual scoring of sleep events in clinical analysis is inconsistent and time-consuming.
method A single deep neural network architecture trained on 1653 recordings for joint detection of arousals, leg movements, and sleep disordered breathing.
result Joint detection of sleep events yields higher accuracy compared to separate models, and correlates well with manual annotations.
On meandric permutationsmath.AT
We found a way to code meanders and show they are idempotent.
problem Understanding and coding meandric permutations.
method We established a bijection between meanders and Gauss diagrams, and used this to construct matrices that are idempotent.
result Meandric permutations are idempotent over the field GF(2).
Background: Electroencephalography (EEG) monitors brain activity during sleep and is used to identify sleep disorders. In sleep medicine, clinicians interpret raw EEG signals in so-called sleep stages, which are assigned by experts to every 30s window of signal. For diagnosis, they also rely on shorter prototypical mic…
Accelerated Block Coordinate Proximal Gradients with Applications in High Dimensional Statisticsmath.OC
Nonconvex optimization problems arise in different research fields and arouse lots of attention in signal processing, statistics and machine learning. In this work, we explore the accelerated proximal gradient method and some of its variants which have been shown to converge under nonconvex context recently. We show th…
Deep Affect Prediction in-the-wild: Aff-Wild Database and Challenge, Deep Architectures, and Beyondcs.CV
Automatic understanding of human affect using visual signals is of great importance in everyday human-machine interactions. Appraising human emotional states, behaviors and reactions displayed in real-world settings, can be accomplished using latent continuous dimensions (e.g., the circumplex model of affect). Valence …
Recently, a unified model for image-to-image translation tasks within adversarial learning framework has aroused widespread research interests in computer vision practitioners. Their reported empirical success however lacks solid theoretical interpretations for its inherent mechanism. In this paper, we reformulate thei…
Emotions play a crucial role in human interaction, health care and security investigations and monitoring. Automatic emotion recognition (AER) using electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is an effective method for decoding the real emotions, which are independent of body gestures, but it is a challenging problem. Several …
This paper presents our approach to the One-Minute Gradual-Emotion Recognition (OMG-Emotion) Challenge, focusing on dimensional emotion recognition through visual analysis of the provided emotion videos. The approach is based on a Convolutional and Recurrent (CNN-RNN) deep neural architecture we have developed for the …
Proposes a new method to improve regression models with reweighted samples.
problem Improves regression models' performance under low sample sizes and covariate perturbations.
method Reparametrizes sample weights using a doubly non-negative matrix and solves the reweighted estimate efficiently.
result Adversarial reweighting strategy delivers promising results on various datasets.
Beyond Sentiment Classification: A Generative Framework for Emotion Intensity Evaluation in Textcs.CL
Generative model evaluates text emotion intensity, outperforming classification.
problem Limitations of discrete emotion classification in applied domains.
method Fine-tuning generative language models to output continuous emotion intensity scores.
result Generative model outperforms classification baselines and reveals generalization capabilities.
Deep Bayesian neural network has aroused a great attention in recent years since it combines the benefits of deep neural network and probability theory. Because of this, the network can make predictions and quantify the uncertainty of the predictions at the same time, which is important in many life-threatening areas. …
Deep learning has aroused extensive attention due to its great empirical success. The efficiency of the block coordinate descent (BCD) methods has been recently demonstrated in deep neural network (DNN) training. However, theoretical studies on their convergence properties are limited due to the highly nonconvex nature…
Study Gram determinants in knot theory, focusing on a Möbius band determinant.
problem Closed formula for the Gram determinant of type .
method Survey of Gram determinants, focusing on a Möbius band determinant.
result Speculation on closed formula for Gram determinant.
This work introduces a fair learning method for diverse sensitive attributes.
problem Fairness in supervised learning with complex sensitive attributes.
method Neural network with a simple random sampler for fairness penalties.
result The method improves fairness and utility on benchmark data.
Graph few-shot learning improves node classification with prior knowledge transfer.
problem Challenging semi-supervised node classification with few labeled nodes.
method Incorporates prior knowledge from auxiliary graphs into a transferable metric space.
result Improves classification accuracy on target graphs.
In this paper we present a novel approach for extracting a Bag-of-Words (BoW) representation based on a Neural Network codebook. The conventional BoW model is based on a dictionary (codebook) built from elementary representations which are selected randomly or by using a clustering algorithm on a training dataset. A me…
The paper studies quaternionic Monge-Ampère equations in weighted energy classes.
problem Characterizing the finite energy range of quaternionic Monge-Ampère operator.
method Proving well-definedness and fine property of the operator in weighted energy classes.
result Explicit characterization of the finite energy range of quaternionic Monge-Ampère operator.
Acquisition of labeled training samples for affective computing is usually costly and time-consuming, as affects are intrinsically subjective, subtle and uncertain, and hence multiple human assessors are needed to evaluate each affective sample. Particularly, for affect estimation in the 3D space of valence, arousal an…
Data stream clustering tackles real-time data processing challenges.
problem Real-time processing of data streams with less prior information.
method Review of data stream clustering algorithms and their characteristics.
result Comparison and analysis of data stream clustering algorithms.
Study uses simulation-based inference to decode brain activity from synthetic stimuli.
problem Reversing the process of brain activity emulation to recover stimuli or their properties.
method Pairing brain emulator with LLMs to learn a probabilistic mapping from brain maps to stimulus parameters.
result LLMs can serve as controllable stimulus generators and parameters can be recovered from brain maps.
Generative model combines multi-dimensional annotations for more accurate ground truth estimation.
problem Inaccurate ground truth estimation from naive annotators' multi-dimensional annotations.
method Proposes a joint multi-dimensional model for global and time-series annotation fusion using Expectation-Maximization algorithm.
result More accurate ground truth estimates through joint modeling of multiple dimensions.
Neural responses are highly variable, and some portion of this variability arises from fluctuations in modulatory factors that alter their gain, such as adaptation, attention, arousal, expected or actual reward, emotion, and local metabolic resource availability. Regardless of their origin, fluctuations in these signal…