A Synergy-Aggregation-First Frequency-Domain Constrained End-to-End EEG Emotion Recognition Method
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1School of Artificial Intelligence,Nanning Normal University,Nanning 530199,China;2Guangxi Key Lab of Human-Machine Interaction and Intelligent Decision,Nanning Normal University,Nanning 530199,China;3College of Computer and Information Engineering, Guangxi Vocational Normal University,Nanning 530007,China

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TP391;R318

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National Natural Science Foundation of China 62067007The Innovation Project of Guangxi Graduate Education JGY2023236Guangxi Science and Technology Innovation Platform Program Project Guike LT2600640001National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.62067007); The Innovation Project of Guangxi Graduate Education (No.JGY2023236); Guangxi Science and Technology Innovation Platform Program Project (No.Guike LT2600640001).

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    The electroencephalogram (EEG)-based emotion recognition is a key technology in next-generation human-computer interaction and brain-computer interface (BCI) systems, with significant applications in national brain science initiatives and intelligent healthcare. However, the inherent non-stationarity, low signal-to-noise ratio, and scarcity of medical EEG samples present substantial challenges for existing deep learning methods in real-world scenarios. Most current approaches directly extract frequency-domain features from single-channel raw signals. This strategy not only risks misinterpreting high-frequency noise as informative features but also neglects the spatial synergy among different brain regions, limiting the model’s generalization ability. To address these issues, this paper proposes a synergy-first end-to-end EEG emotion recognition framework, introducing the synergy-frequency aggregation network (SFAN) for collaborative frequency-domain feature extraction based on aggregation convolutions. Departing from the conventional “frequency extraction followed by spatial fusion” paradigm, the SFAN first employs a channel aggregation convolution module to adaptively fuse multi-channel EEG signals, simulating dynamic inter-regional brain synergies to generate highly robust collaborative representations. Frequency-domain feature extraction and deep spatiotemporal modeling are then performed on these representations. This strategy effectively suppresses channel-level noise prior to frequency analysis and enriches the feature space through diverse aggregation patterns, alleviating overfitting under small-sample conditions. The SFAN achieves a classification accuracy of 97.42% on the SEED-Ⅳ dataset and 94.91% on the SEED-Ⅴ dataset. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method consistently outperforms existing approaches in cross-subject and cross-session emotion recognition tasks, validating the effectiveness of incorporating inter-regional brain collaboration prior to frequency-domain analysis for enhancing EEG emotion recognition robustness.

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BI Yingzhou, YUAN Yue, LIU Shanrui, ZHOU Shuheng, HUO Leigang, GAN Qiujing. A Synergy-Aggregation-First Frequency-Domain Constrained End-to-End EEG Emotion Recognition Method[J]. Journal of Data Acquisition and Processing,2026,41(5):1535-1547.

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  • Received:January 21,2026
  • Revised:July 06,2026
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  • Online: October 14,2026
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