DC-ASTGCN: EEG Emotion Recognition Based on Fusion Deep Convolutional and Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks

Thanks to advancements in artificial intelligence and brain-computer interface (BCI) research, there has been increasing attention towards emotion recognition techniques based on electroencephalogram (EEG) recently. The complexity of EEG data poses a challenge when it comes to accurately classifying emotions by integrating time, frequency, and spatial domain features. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a fusion model called DC-ASTGCN, which combines the strengths of deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) and adaptive spatio-temporal graphic convolutional neural network (ASTGCN) to comprehensively analyze and understand EEG signals. The DCNN focuses on extracting frequency-domain and local spatial features from EEG signals to identify brain region activity patterns, while the ASTGCN, with its spatio-temporal attention mechanism and adaptive brain topology layer, reveals the functional connectivity features between brain regions in different emotional states. This integration significantly enhances the model's ability to understand and recognize emotional states. Extensive experiments conducted on the DEAP and SEED datasets demonstrate that the DC-ASTGCN model outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods in terms of emotion recognition accuracy.