Lightweight CNN-LSTM Models for EEG-Based Emotion Recognition in Education
摘要
With the advancement of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, emotion recognition based on electroencephalogram (EEG) signals has attracted increasing attention in educational settings. To improve real-time monitoring of students’ emotional states in classroom environments, this study designs and compares three convolutional neural network architectures suitable for preliminary local feature extraction from EEG signals. Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks are integrated for temporal modeling, and a multilayer perceptron is employed for valence binary classification. Experiments conducted on the DEAP dataset demonstrate that the EEGNet-LSTM model achieves an average classification accuracy of 77.9% and an F1 score of 72.9% across 32 subjects, outperforming ResNet-LSTM and Spatiotemporal Convolution-LSTM models in both feature extraction capability and model efficiency. This model is applicable to practical teaching scenarios and provides a technical foundation for EEG-based emotion recognition systems in education.