Emotion recognition model based on CLSTM and channel attention mechanism

In this paper, we propose an emotion recognition model based on convolutional neural network (CNN), long short term memory (LSTM) and channel attention mechanism, aiming at the low classification accuracy of machine learning methods and the uneven spatial distribution of electroencephalogram (EEG) electrodes. This model can effectively integrate the frequency, space and time information of EEG signals, and improve the accuracy of emotion recognition by adding channel attention mechanism after the last convolutional layer of the model. Firstly, construct a 4-dimensional structure representing EEG signals. Then, a CLSTM model structure combining CNN and LSTM is designed. CNN is used to extract frequency and spatial information from 4-dimensional input, and LSTM is used to extract time information. Finally, the channel attention module is added after the last convolutional layer of CLSTM model structure to allocate the weight of different electrodes. In this paper, an emotion recognition model based on CLSTM and channel attention mechanism was proposed from the perspective of integrating the frequency, space and time 3-dimensional information of EEG signals. The average classification accuracy of the model on SEED public data set reached 93.36%, which was significantly improved over the existing CNN and LSTM emotion recognition models.