EEG-based Emotion Recognition using Graph Attention Network with Dual-Branch Attention Module

EEG reveals human brain activities for emotion and becomes an important aspect of affective computing. In this study, we developed a novel approach, namely DAM-GAT, which incorporated a dual-branch attention module (DAM) into a graph attention network (GAT) for EEG-based emotion recognition. This method used the GAT to capture the local features of emotional EEG signals. To enhance the important EEG features for emotion recognition, the proposed method also included a DAM that calculated weights considering both channel and frequency information. Additionally, the relationship between EEG channels was determined using the phase-locking value (PLV) connectivity of corresponding EEG signals. Based on the SEED datasets, the proposed approach provided an accuracy of up to 94.63% for emotion recognition, demonstrating its impressive performance compared with other existing methods.