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Mental Workload Classification Method Based on Transfer Component Analysis with Cross-Session EEG Data

  • Hongquan Qu
  • , Hanwen Dong
  • , Liping Pang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • North China University of Technology

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Abstract

Due to the non-stationary randomness of the EEG signals, which results in a trained classifier with very low generalization ability. In order to improve the cross-session classification accuracy of Mental Workload (MW), a domain adaptive classification method is studied based on Transfer Component Analysis (TCA) using EEG Independent Components (ICs) in this paper. First step is to transform the EEG data in source and target domains in a same way. The TCA algorithm is used to build the transformation ϕ in order to minimize their Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) distance between the source domain and the target domain. Second step is to train a MW classifier using the SVM and the transformed EEG data in the source domain. The target domain data are used for test. The presented method is compared with Subspace Alignment (SA). EEG data in the source and target domains are measured 24 h apart. A-distance is calculated to reveal the distribution difference between the transformed source and the target domains. The results show that the classification accuracy of the proposed method can be improved by 15.11% compared with SA. The A-distance of TCA is significantly lower than that of SA.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMan-Machine-Environment System Engineering - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on MMESE
EditorsShengzhao Long, Balbir S. Dhillon
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages17-23
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9789811947858
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event22nd International Conference on Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering, MMESE 2022 - Beijing, China
Duration: 21 Oct 202223 Oct 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Volume941 LNEE
ISSN (Print)1876-1100
ISSN (Electronic)1876-1119

Conference

Conference22nd International Conference on Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering, MMESE 2022
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period21/10/2223/10/22

Keywords

  • Classification of mental workload
  • EEG
  • Independent Component Analysis (ICA)
  • Subspace Alignment (SA)
  • Transfer Component Analysis (TCA)

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