REFS: Robust EEG feature selection with missing multi-dimensional annotation for emotion recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05933v1
• Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2025 01:53:46 GMT
• Title: REFS: Robust EEG feature selection with missing multi-dimensional annotation for emotion recognition
• Authors: Xueyuan Xu, Wenjia Dong, Fulin Wei, Li Zhuo,
• Abstract summary: The affective brain-computer interface is a crucial technology for affective interaction and emotional intelligence.<n>The high dimensionality of multi-type EEG features, combined with the relatively small number of high-quality EEG samples, poses challenges in emotion recognition.<n>This study proposes a novel EEG feature selection method for missing multi-dimensional emotion recognition.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The affective brain-computer interface is a crucial technology for affective interaction and emotional intelligence, emerging as a significant area of research in the human-computer interaction. Compared to single-type features, multi-type EEG features provide a multi-level representation for analyzing multi-dimensional emotions. However, the high dimensionality of multi-type EEG features, combined with the relatively small number of high-quality EEG samples, poses challenges such as classifier overfitting and suboptimal real-time performance in multi-dimensional emotion recognition. Moreover, practical applications of affective brain-computer interface frequently encounters partial absence of multi-dimensional emotional labels due to the open nature of the acquisition environment, and ambiguity and variability in individual emotion perception. To address these challenges, this study proposes a novel EEG feature selection method for missing multi-dimensional emotion recognition. The method leverages adaptive orthogonal non-negative matrix factorization to reconstruct the multi-dimensional emotional label space through second-order and higher-order correlations, which could reduce the negative impact of missing values and outliers on label reconstruction. Simultaneously, it employs least squares regression with graph-based manifold learning regularization and global feature redundancy minimization regularization to enable EEG feature subset selection despite missing information, ultimately achieving robust EEG-based multi-dimensional emotion recognition. Simulation experiments on three widely used multi-dimensional emotional datasets, DREAMER, DEAP and HDED, reveal that the proposed method outperforms thirteen advanced feature selection methods in terms of robustness for EEG emotional feature selection.

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