Feature Selection for Emotion Recognition through EEG Signals
Emotion classification through EEG signals has attracted the attention of researchers in several fields, including those studying brain-computer interfaces. This work focus on feature selection necessary to achieve a good classification performance. We started with the classic Principle Component Analysis (PCA) and the Maximum Relevance Minimum Redundance method (mRMR) . We proposed a modification on the Maximum Relevance Minimum Redundance method, applying it to EEG signals without the need of a discretization step. We show how the proposed method significantly improves the classifiers performance when compared to the use of classical PCA. We also included a detailed analysis of the discrete mRMR, and also a comparison of the methods mentionned above with the well known Backward Wrapper method.