Towards Practical Emotion Recognition: An Unsupervised Source-Free Approach for EEG Domain Adaptation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03707v1
• Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:29:20 GMT
• Title: Towards Practical Emotion Recognition: An Unsupervised Source-Free Approach for EEG Domain Adaptation
• Authors: Md Niaz Imtiaz, Naimul Khan,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel SF-UDA approach for EEG-based emotion classification across domains.<n>We introduce Dual-Loss Adaptive Regularization (DLAR) to minimize prediction discrepancies and align predictions with expected pseudo-labels.<n>Our approach significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods, achieving 65.84% accuracy when trained on DEAP and tested on SEED.
• Score: 0.5755004576310334
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Emotion recognition is crucial for advancing mental health, healthcare, and technologies like brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). However, EEG-based emotion recognition models face challenges in cross-domain applications due to the high cost of labeled data and variations in EEG signals from individual differences and recording conditions. Unsupervised domain adaptation methods typically require access to source domain data, which may not always be feasible in real-world scenarios due to privacy and computational constraints. Source-free unsupervised domain adaptation (SF-UDA) has recently emerged as a solution, enabling target domain adaptation without source data, but its application in emotion recognition remains unexplored. We propose a novel SF-UDA approach for EEG-based emotion classification across domains, introducing a multi-stage framework that enhances model adaptability without requiring source data. Our approach incorporates Dual-Loss Adaptive Regularization (DLAR) to minimize prediction discrepancies on confident samples and align predictions with expected pseudo-labels. Additionally, we introduce Localized Consistency Learning (LCL), which enforces local consistency by promoting similar predictions from reliable neighbors. These techniques together address domain shift and reduce the impact of noisy pseudo-labels, a key challenge in traditional SF-UDA models. Experiments on two widely used datasets, DEAP and SEED, demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. Our approach significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods, achieving 65.84% accuracy when trained on DEAP and tested on SEED, and 58.99% accuracy in the reverse scenario. It excels at detecting both positive and negative emotions, making it well-suited for practical emotion recognition applications.

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