Cross-task emotion recognition using eeg measures: first step towards practical application

Electroencephalographic (EEG)-based emotion recognition has received increasing attention in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) recently, there however remains a number of challenges in building a generalized emotion recognition model, one of which includes the difficulty of an EEG-based emotion classifier trained on a specific task to handle other tasks. Little attention has been paid to this issue. The current study is to determine the feasibility of coping with this challenge using feature selection. 12 healthy volunteers were emotionally elicited when conducting picture induced and video induced tasks. Firstly, support vector machine (SVM) classifier was examined under within-task conditions (trained and tested on the same task) and cross-task conditions (trained on one task and tested on another task) for picture induced and video induced tasks. The within-task classification performed fairly well (classification accuracy: 51.6% for picture task and 94.4% for video task). Cross-task classification, however, deteriorated to low levels (around 44%). Trained and tested with the most robust feature subset selected by SVM-recursive feature elimination (RFE), the performance of cross-task classifier was significantly improved to above 68%. These results suggest that cross-task emotion recognition is feasible with proper methods and bring EEG-based emotion recognition models closer to being able to discriminate emotion states for any tasks.     

Sparse and stable gene selection with consensus SVM-RFE

A method is described for performing sparse and stable gene selection from a number of unstable, but low cost, SVM-RFE units referred to as SVM-RFE subunits. Using a comprehensive simulation study, we show that the introduction of a consensus constraint with respect to variations in the policy of gene removal and a stability constraint with respect to perturbations in the training data can remarkably improve gene selection precision, dimensionality reduction ratio and stability of low cost SVM-RFE subunits still guaranteeing affordable computational costs. The method, which does not require the preselection of the number of selected genes, is divided into two stages. Multiple rough gene removal policies are first applied to multiple surrogate training datasets (spreading). Multiple consensus gene sets with respect to variations in the gene removal policy are then obtained and passed through a stability filter which selects the best performing gene set (despreading). Hence, while the consensus constraint performs strong dimensionality reduction at affordable computational costs, the stability constraint ensures acceptable indexes of gene selection stability and further dimensionality reduction. The method is validated on three benchmark microarray datasets.     

基于SVM-RFE的异常入侵检测主机特征选择研究

异常入侵检测需要提取入侵特征的原始信息,因此特征选择非常重要.本文介绍了26个异常入侵Windows主机特征,以及SVM-RFE特征选择方法,并把SVM-RFE应用于SVM框架下的异常入侵检测系统主机特征选择.通过特征选择实验,得到了26个主机特征的重要性排序,并选出了18个主要特征.     

基于集成学习的铸件缺陷识别方法

针对铸件图像噪声多和对比度不足引起的缺陷识别困难的问题,文中提出了一种基于集成学习的铸件缺陷识别方法。首先,该方法采用灰度变换法、双边滤波以及自适应图像分割法对铸件图像进行预处理。然后,通过提取方向梯度直方图（Histogram of Oriented Gradients, HOG）特征、不变矩特征和局部二值模式（Local Binary Pattern, LBP）纹理特征构建全信息特征集,并结合支持向量机递归特征消除（Support Vector Machine-Recursive Feature Elimination, SVM-RFE）算法筛选铸件缺陷敏感特征。最后,利用Adaboost-RF（Adaptive Boosting-Random Forest）方法构建铸件缺陷识别模型。对比实验结果表明,该模型不仅可以有效提取缺陷敏感特征,而且相较于其他分类器具有更好的分类性能和泛化能力。     

Mutual information-based SVM-RFE for diagnostic classification of digitized mammograms

Computer aided diagnosis (CADx) systems for digitized mammograms solve the problem of classification between benign and malignant tissues while studies have shown that using only a subset of features generated from the mammograms can yield higher classification accuracy. To this end, we propose a mutual information-based Support Vector Machine Recursive Feature Elimination (SVM-RFE) as the classification method with feature selection in this paper. We have conducted extensive experiments on publicly available mammographic data and the obtained results indicate that the proposed method outperforms other SVM and SVM-RFE-based methods.     

基于改进SVM-RFE的特征选择方法研究

SVM-RFE特征选择算法是一种有效的特征选择方法,具有较高的应用价值。针对传统SVM-RFE特征选择算法中SVM参数(γ和C)难以确定的问题,本文采用粒子群算法搜索SVM的参数。然后将特征向量映射到SVM参数γ确定的核空间中并进行特征选择,有效地将特征选择与SVM分类器设计关联起来。仿真结果表明,特征选择后的数据集仍能保证SVM分类器具有较高的分类正确率。     

基于ACCA-FCM和SVM-RFE的蓄电池SOH特征选择算法

由于铅酸蓄电池老化程度受诸多因素影响,且蓄电池老化实验受完全充放电时间和样本数量限制,使得基于小样本的具有代表性的特征集的选择在蓄电池健康状态（SOH）预测中显得尤为重要。因此在对蓄电池进行特性分析的基础上,提出基于无监督的ACCA-FCM和有监督的SVM-RFE相结合的蓄电池SOH特征选择算法。该算法利用改进的蚁群聚类算法（ACCA）从全局特征集中选取有效的特征值聚类中心,克服模糊C均值聚类算法（FCM）聚类中心敏感和局部最优问题,并根据特征之间相关性排除冗余特征;再通过SVM-RFE特征排序算法剔除非关键干扰（低预测性）特征,最终得到与待测结果最大相关最小冗余的低维特征子集,且在保证精度的前提下,避开了完全放电过程。经基于支持向量机（SVM）的蓄电池SOH预测模型验证,放电初期特征构成的最优特征子集可准确预测铅酸蓄电池的健康状态。     

An improved approach to steganalysis of JPEG images

Steganography secretly embeds additional information in digital products, the potential for covert dissemination of malicious software, mobile code, or information is great. To combat the threat posed by steganography, steganalysis aims at the exposure of the stealthy communication. In this paper, a new scheme is proposed for steganalysis of JPEG images, which, being the most common image format, is believed to be widely used for steganography purposes as there are many free or commercial tools for producing steganography using JPEG covers.First, a recently proposed Markov approach [27] is expanded to the inter-block of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) and to the discrete wavelet transform (DWT). The features on the joint distributions of the transform coefficients and the features on the polynomial fitting errors of the histogram of the DCT coefficients are also extracted. All features are called original ExPanded Features (EPF). Next, the EPF features are extracted from the calibrated version; these are called reference EPF features. The difference between the original and the reference EPF features is calculated, and then the original EPF features and the difference are merged to form the feature vector for classification.To handle the large number of developed features, the feature selection method of support vector machine recursive feature elimination (SVM-RFE) and a method of multi-class support vector machine recursive feature elimination (MSVM-RFE) are used to select features for binary classification and multi-class classification, respectively. Finally, support vector machines are applied to the selected features for detecting stego-images.Experimental results show that, in comparison to the Markov approach [27], this new scheme remarkably improves the detection performance on several JPEG-based steganographic systems, including JPHS, CryptoBola, F5, Steghide, and Model based steganography.