arXiv Machine Learning

State-specific respiratory signatures for affective and stress recognition: Interpretable respiratory markers, autocorrelation lags, and compact CNN models

The study investigates respiratory signals from the WESAD dataset to detect stress and other affective states. It compares compact 1‑D CNN models trained on raw 60‑second signals with handcrafted respiratory signatures that capture timing, variability, waveform, spectral, and autocorrelation features. While the CNN achieves the highest accuracy for stress detection, the handcrafted signatures provide stronger, physiologically interpretable markers for baseline, amusement, and especially meditation states.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26

State-Specific Respiratory Signatures for Affective and Stress Recognition: Interpretable Respiratory Markers, Autocorrelation Lags, and Compact CNN Models

arXiv:2606. 26723v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Respiratory activity is a direct and interpretable physiological channel for wearable stress and affective-state recognition, yet many studies emphasize classification accuracy without identifying which respiratory properties separate different states.

By Andrei Velichko, Mehmet Tahir Huyut
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 21

From Stress to Affect: Multimodal Deep Learning for Physiological Emotion Recognition Across Wearable Sensor Modalities

The study compares temporal deep learning models—Bidirectional LSTM, Temporal Convolutional Network, and Transformer—for physiological emotion recognition using two multimodal wearable datasets, WESAD and EmoWear. Experiments evaluate wrist-only, chest-only, and multimodal sensor configurations with participant-independent leave-one-subject-out cross-validation, and also explore ensembles, sensor ablation, sampling frequency, and saliency analysis. Results show that the best architecture varies by dataset, multimodal sensing consistently outperforms single-site configurations, and a 4 Hz sampling rate offers a cost-effective operating point.

By Desta Haileselassie Hagos, Saurav Keshari Aryal, Legand L. Burge
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 15

Bridging the Gap in ECG-Based Emotion Recognition: A Unified Evaluation of Deep Learning Models

The paper evaluates deep learning models for electrocardiogram‑based emotion recognition, focusing on generalization across datasets rather than dataset‑specific performance. It introduces two open‑source tools—ARRC for standardized benchmarking and ARDT for inter‑dataset training—to merge three public AER datasets (CUADS, ASCERTAIN, DREAMER) into a more variable benchmark. Using these tools, the authors compare three prominent deep learning architectures and two CNN baselines with hyperparameter tuning and 10‑fold cross‑validation, revealing trade‑offs between accuracy and model complexity and providing a reproducible benchmark for future research.

By Timothy C Sweeney-Fanelli, Ajan Ahmed, Masudul Imtiaz
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 9

Optimizing 2D Input Representations and Sub-phase Fusion Strategies for Differential Diagnosis of Asthma and COPD Using CNN- and GRU-Based Networks

This study aims to explore the performance of the VAR model in comparison with mel-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) matrices and log-mel spectrograms using deep learning. In pulmonary sound classification, spectrogram-based representations suffer from inconsistent temporal dimensions due to varying respiratory cycle durations.

arXiv AI
Aug 20

When Clean Signals Are Not Enough: Detecting Structural Ambiguity for Safe Wearable Stress Classification

The paper introduces the Individual Conformal Coupling Monitor (ICCM), a lightweight pre‑inference tool that detects structural ambiguity—when physiological signals that appear plausible individually form a pattern poorly supported by a person’s non‑stress baseline—in wearable stress classifiers. On the WESAD dataset, a Random Forest achieves high mean accuracy but fails entirely for Subject 14 due to weakened cross‑signal coupling near stress onset. ICCM quantifies subject‑specific coupling divergence and can route data to classify, defer, or abstain, reducing false positives slightly and withholding some misclassified windows, though it does not fully correct the failure.

By Saba A. Farahani, Hung Cao, Amir M. Rahmani
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

AF-Mamba: Efficient Long-Term Signal Modeling for Early Prediction of Atrial Fibrillation Onset

AF-Mamba is a deep learning model that predicts atrial fibrillation (AF) onset one hour in advance using long‑term RR intervals. It combines temporal convolutional networks for local feature extraction with Mamba, a state‑space model for long‑range sequence modeling, achieving high sensitivity (0.889) and specificity (0.943) in subject‑wise testing. The model maintains strong performance across unseen datasets, offering a favorable trade‑off between predictive accuracy and computational efficiency for real‑time ambulatory monitoring.

By Yongbin Lee, Ki H. Chon
arXiv AI
Aug 24

NeuroStrata: An Electroencephalographic Connectivity-Aware Deep Representation Learning Framework for Dynamic Brain Network Analysis of Mental Stress

NeuroStrata is a deep learning framework that analyzes mental stress by modeling the temporal evolution of frequency‑specific directed connectivity in EEG signals using Time‑Varying Partial Directed Coherence (TV‑PDC). It transforms TV‑PDC connectivity maps into deep embeddings with pretrained CNNs and Vision Transformers, then classifies them with lightweight machine learning models. Experiments on the SAM 40 dataset show that beta‑band connectivity yields the highest accuracy (97.3 %) with a ViT backbone, while alpha‑band connectivity remains consistently stable, and that stress‑related connectivity signatures consolidate in mid‑to‑late temporal windows.

By Sayantan Acharya, Hamzeh Asgharnezhad, Abbas Khosravi, Douglas Creighton, Roohallah Alizadehsani, U Rajendra Acharya