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Front. Neurorobot.
Volume 18 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fnbot.2024.1442080

A Novel Signal Channel Attention Network for Multi-modal Emotion Recognition

Provisionally accepted
Zi Ang Du Zi Ang Du Ye Xia Ye Xia *Pujie Zhao Pujie Zhao *
  • Xi'an Research Institute of High Technology, Xi’an, China

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    Physiological signal recognition is crucial in emotion recognition, and recent advancements in multi-modal fusion have enabled the integration of various physiological signals for improved recognition tasks. However, current models for emotion recognition with hyper complex multimodal signals face limitations due to fusion methods and insufficient attention mechanisms, preventing further enhancement in classification performance.To address these challenges, we propose a new model framework named Signal Channel Attention Network(SCA-Net), which comprises three main components: an encoder, an attention fusion module, and a decoder. In the attention fusion module, we developed five types of attention mechanisms inspired by existing research and performed comparative experiments using the public dataset MAHNOB-HCI. These experiments demonstrated some improvements in effectiveness.We also conducted ablation experiments within the most effective attention fusion module to verify the benefits of multi-modal fusion. Additionally, we adjusted the training process for different attention fusion modules by employing varying early stopping parameters to prevent model overfitting.

    Keywords: Hypercomplex Neural Networks, physiological signals, Attention fusion module, Multi-modal fusion, emotion recognition

    Received: 01 Jun 2024; Accepted: 26 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Du, Xia and Zhao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Ye Xia, Xi'an Research Institute of High Technology, Xi’an, China
    Pujie Zhao, Xi'an Research Institute of High Technology, Xi’an, China

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