Emotion Recognition Using PPG Signals of Smartwatch on Purpose of Threat Detection

This paper proposes a machine learning approach to detect threats using short-term PPG (photoplethysmogram) signals from a commercial smartwatch. In supervised learning, having accurately annotated training data is essential. However, a key challenge in the threat detection problem is the uncertaint...

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Main Authors: Gyuwon Hwang, Sohee Yoo, Jaehyun Yoo
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Published: MDPI AG 2024-12-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/1/18
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description This paper proposes a machine learning approach to detect threats using short-term PPG (photoplethysmogram) signals from a commercial smartwatch. In supervised learning, having accurately annotated training data is essential. However, a key challenge in the threat detection problem is the uncertainty regarding how accurately data labeled as ‘threat’ reflect actual threat responses since participants may react differently to the same experiments. In this paper, Gaussian Mixture Models are learned to remove ambiguously labeled training, and those models are also used to remove ambiguous test data. For the realistic test scenario, PPG measurements are collected from participants playing a horror VR (Virtual Reality) game, and the proposed method validates the superiority of our proposed approach in comparison with other methods. Also, the proposed filtering with GMM improves prediction accuracy by 23% compared to the method that does not incorporate the filtering.
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spelling doaj-art-c0d6c25fc0fa4ad8b515f23f2479dcf32025-01-10T13:20:33ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202024-12-012511810.3390/s25010018Emotion Recognition Using PPG Signals of Smartwatch on Purpose of Threat DetectionGyuwon Hwang0Sohee Yoo1Jaehyun Yoo2School of AI Convergence, Sungshin Women’s University, 34 da-gil 2, Bomun-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02844, Republic of KoreaSchool of AI Convergence, Sungshin Women’s University, 34 da-gil 2, Bomun-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02844, Republic of KoreaSchool of AI Convergence, Sungshin Women’s University, 34 da-gil 2, Bomun-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02844, Republic of KoreaThis paper proposes a machine learning approach to detect threats using short-term PPG (photoplethysmogram) signals from a commercial smartwatch. In supervised learning, having accurately annotated training data is essential. However, a key challenge in the threat detection problem is the uncertainty regarding how accurately data labeled as ‘threat’ reflect actual threat responses since participants may react differently to the same experiments. In this paper, Gaussian Mixture Models are learned to remove ambiguously labeled training, and those models are also used to remove ambiguous test data. For the realistic test scenario, PPG measurements are collected from participants playing a horror VR (Virtual Reality) game, and the proposed method validates the superiority of our proposed approach in comparison with other methods. Also, the proposed filtering with GMM improves prediction accuracy by 23% compared to the method that does not incorporate the filtering.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/1/18threat detectionPPG signalmachine learningsmartwatch
spellingShingle Gyuwon Hwang
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Emotion Recognition Using PPG Signals of Smartwatch on Purpose of Threat Detection
Sensors
threat detection
PPG signal
machine learning
smartwatch
title Emotion Recognition Using PPG Signals of Smartwatch on Purpose of Threat Detection
title_full Emotion Recognition Using PPG Signals of Smartwatch on Purpose of Threat Detection
title_fullStr Emotion Recognition Using PPG Signals of Smartwatch on Purpose of Threat Detection
title_full_unstemmed Emotion Recognition Using PPG Signals of Smartwatch on Purpose of Threat Detection
title_short Emotion Recognition Using PPG Signals of Smartwatch on Purpose of Threat Detection
title_sort emotion recognition using ppg signals of smartwatch on purpose of threat detection
topic threat detection
PPG signal
machine learning
smartwatch
url https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/1/18
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