This paper proposes a novel feature called differential entropy for EEG-based vigilance estimation. By mathematical derivation, we find an interesting relationship between the proposed differential entropy and the existing logarithm energy spectrum. We present a physical interpretation of the logarithm energy spectrum which is widely used in EEG signal analysis. To evaluate the performance of the proposed differential entropy feature for vigilance estimation, we compare it with four existing features on an EEG data set of twenty-three subjects. All of the features are projected to the same dimension by principal component analysis algorithm. Experiment results show that differential entropy is the most accurate and stable EEG feature to reflect the vigilance changes.
Slow eye movement (SEM) regarded as a sign of onset of sleep is very significant for detecting driver fatigue, but its characteristics and detection algorithm have been rarely involved in the study of driver fatigue detection. In this study, some new features were extracted based on wavelet singularity analysis and statistics to detect SEMs. Six subjects participated in this simulated driving experiment, and for each subject, a more than 2 hours electro-oculogram (EOG) session was recorded. Each session was divided into SEM epochs and non-SEM epochs according to the common judgments made by the two of three experts by the visual recognition criteria of SEMs. Regarding the problem of detecting SEMs as an imbalance classification problem, and through the under-sampling and over-sampling methods a 2s horizontal electro-oculogram (HEO) signal could finally be recognized as the category of SEMs or non-SEMs with the classifiers SVM, GELM, and KNN respectively. Results prove that the proposed features was a little better than the wavelet energy features, and through the combination of the wavelet energy features and the new features based on wavelet singularity analysis and statistics, the classification results were improved obviously.
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