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ArticleScientific reports2025

Cross-subject EEG signals-based emotion recognition using contrastive learning.

Ahmed Mohammed Alghamdi, M Usman Ashraf, Adel A Bahaddad, Khalid Ali Almarhabi, Waleed A Al Shehri, Amil Daraz

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  2. [An electroencephalogram-based emotion recognition method using multi-branch convolutional neural networks and Transformer].Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi · 2026
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  4. [A group-level stimulus-aware self-supervised soft contrastive learning framework for electroencephalogram emotion recognition].Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi · 2026
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Ahmed Mohammed AlghamdiDepartment of Software Engineering, College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Jeddah, 21493, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. amalghamdi@uj.edu.sa.
M Usman AshrafDepartment of Computer Science, GC Women University Sialkot, Sialkot, 53310, Pakistan.
Adel A BahaddadDepartment of Information System, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, 21589, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Khalid Ali AlmarhabiDepartment of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Computing in Al-Qunfudah, Umm Al-Qura University, 24381, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
Waleed A Al ShehriDepartment of Computing, College of Engineering and Computing in Al-Lith, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
Amil DarazCollege of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

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University of Jeddah UJ-24-SUCH-1247
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electroencephalography (EEG) signals based emotion brain computer interface (BCI) is a significant field in the domain of affective computing where EEG signals are the cause of reliable and objective applications. Despite these advancements, significant challenges persist, including individual differences in EEG signals across subjects during emotion recognition. To cope this challenge, current study introduces a cutting-edge cross subject contrastive learning (CSCL) scheme for EEG signals representation of brain region. The proposed scheme addresses the generalisation across subjects directly, which is a primary challenge in EEG signals-based emotions recognition. The proposed CSCL scheme captures the complex patterns effectively by employing emotions and stimulus contrastive losses within hyperbolic space. CSCL is designed primarily to learn representations that can effectively distinguish signals originating from different brain regions. Further, we evaluate the significance of our proposed CSCL scheme on five different datasets, including SEED, CEED, FACED and MPED, and obtain 97.70%, 96.26%, 65.98%, and 51.30% respectively. The experimental results show that our proposed CSCL scheme demonstrates strong effectiveness while addressing the challenges related to cross subject variability and label noise in the EEG-based emotion recognition system.

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BrainBrain-Computer InterfacesElectroencephalographyEmotionsMachine LearningAdultAlgorithmsFemaleHumansMaleSignal Processing, Computer-AssistedArtificial IntelligenceCNNDeep learningEnsemble learning

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