EmoTracer: A User-independent Wearable Emotion Tracer with Multi-source Physiological Sensors Based on Few-shot Learning

The rising prevalence of mood disorders, including depression and anxiety, underscores the critical state of physical and mental health issues in contemporary society. Automatic emotion recognition technology emerges as a potential tool for monitoring mental health disorders, and offering valuable guidance through human-computer interfaces. However, existing technologies grapple with limitations, such as emotional concealment, potential privacy leakage, and specific device location restrictions. To overcome these limitations, we propose a mobile wearable emotion recognition system called EmoTracer incorporating ubiquitous multi-source sensors to measure physiology signals, and address challenges such as the intricate signal-emotion relationship, sparse data processing, and notable disparities among different subjects. We implement a real-time prototype and carry out comprehensive experiments to evaluate its performance. For six basic emotions, the results show that EmoTracer can achieve 95.6% accuracy in intra-subject emotion classification and 80.7% accuracy with 5 shots in cross-subject emotion classification.