Active learning for electrodermal activity classification

• Main Authors: Xia, Victoria F. (Contributor), Jaques, Natasha Mary (Contributor), Taylor, Sara Ann (Contributor), Fedor, Szymon (Contributor), Picard, Rosalind W. (Contributor)
• Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory. Affective Computing Group (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory (Contributor), Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Contributor)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017-05-26T19:27:35Z.
• Subjects: Article
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 To filter noise or detect features within physiological signals, it is often effective to encode expert knowledge into a model such as a machine learning classifier. However, training such a model can require much effort on the part of the researcher; this often takes the form of manually labeling portions of signal needed to represent the concept being trained. Active learning is a technique for reducing human effort by developing a classifier that can intelligently select the most relevant data samples and ask for labels for only those samples, in an iterative process. In this paper we demonstrate that active learning can reduce the labeling effort required of researchers by as much as 84% for our application, while offering equivalent or even slightly improved machine learning performance.