An independent approach to training classifiers on physiological data: An example using smiles

Md Zakir Hossain*, Tom D. Gedeon

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    Abstract

    Training neural network and other classifiers on physiological signals has challenges beyond more traditional datasets, as the training data includes data points which are not independent. Most obviously, more than one sample can come from a particular human subject. Standard cross-validation as implemented in many AI tools gives artificially high results as the common human subject is not considered. This is handled by some papers in the literature, by using leave-one-subject-out cross-validation. We argue that this is not sufficient, and introduce our independent approach, which is leave-one-subject-and-one-stimulus-out cross-validation. We demonstrate our approach using KNN, SVM and NN classifiers and their ensemble, using an extended example of physiological recordings from subjects observing genuine versus posed smiles, which are the two kinds of the nicest smiles and hard for people to differentiate reliably. We use three physiological signals, 20 video stimuli and 24 observers/participants, achieving 96.1% correct results, in a truly robust fashion.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationNeural Information Processing - 25th International Conference, ICONIP 2018, Proceedings
    EditorsAndrew Chi Sing Leung, Seiichi Ozawa, Long Cheng
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages603-613
    Number of pages11
    ISBN (Print)9783030041786
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2018
    Event25th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2018 - Siem Reap, Cambodia
    Duration: 13 Dec 201816 Dec 2018

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume11302 LNCS
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference25th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2018
    Country/TerritoryCambodia
    CitySiem Reap
    Period13/12/1816/12/18

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