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Classification of emotions based on electrodermal activity and transfer learning - a pilot study Cover

Classification of emotions based on electrodermal activity and transfer learning - a pilot study

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|Dec 2021

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Example measurement of low frequency skin conductance. Person being highly stressed (red curve), moderately stressed (green curve), and totally relaxed (blue curve).

Figure 2

Conductance measurement. Example of data reported as disgust.

Figure 3

CWT treated conductance measurement. The same example (Figure 2) of data reported as disgust with CWT applied.

Table 1

Category of emotion and how many times the emotion was reported.

EmotionNumber of samples
Amusement20
Anger9
Disgust24
Fear5
Neutral15
Sadness26
Tenderness1
Figure 4

Architecture of the machine learning process.

Figure 5

Confusion matrix for the first results produced by the model using the full dataset.

Table 2

Results using the CWT treated EDA data with test size = 20 and trees = 100.

test size = 20trees = 100
precisionrecallf1-scoresupport
amusement0.750.750.754
anger0.000.000.002
disgust1.000.250.408
fear0.000.000.001
neutral0.000.000.002
sadness0.150.670.253
accuracy0.3520
macro avg0.320.280.2320
weighted avg0.570.350.3520
Figure 6

Confusion matrix for the first results produced by the model using the full data set with SMOTE data added.

Table 3

Results using the full CWT applied EDA dataset with synthetic data. The parameters are set to: test size = 20 and trees = 100.

test size = 20trees = 100
precisionrecallf1-scoresupport
amusement1.000.500.674
anger0.600.750.674
disgust0.330.250.294
fear1.001.001.006
neutral0.800.440.579
sadness0.270.600.375
accuracy0.5932
macro avg0.670.590.5932
weighted avg0.700.590.6132
Figure 7

Confusion matrix for the results produced by the model using the three category data set with SMOTE data added.

Table 4

Results using the 3 class CWT EDA data with synthetic data. Test size = 20 and trees = 300.

test size = 20trees = 600
precisionrecallf1-scoresupport
amusement1.000.800.895
disgust0.800.670.736
sadness0.711.000.835
accuracy0.8116
macro avg0.840.820.8216
weighted avg0.840.810.8116
Language: English
Page range: 178 - 183
Submitted on: Dec 7, 2021
Published on: Dec 30, 2021
Published by: University of Oslo
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2021 Fredrik A. Jacobsen, Ellen W. Hafli, Christian Tronstad, Ørjan G. Martinsen, published by University of Oslo
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.