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|July 10, 2025
Summary
This study presents a new fear recognition system using physiological signals for extreme-edge devices. The novel approach achieves 80% f1-score and 74% accuracy, enabling real-world wearable emotion recognition.
Area of Science:
- Affective computing and emotion recognition.
- Machine learning and deep learning applications in human-computer interaction.
Background:
- Existing emotion recognition methods struggle with extreme-edge constraints for wearable systems.
- Real-world deployment of affective computing requires efficient, low-power solutions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce a novel end-to-end fear recognition system for extreme-edge contexts.
- To develop a system deployable in resource-constrained wearable devices.
Main Methods:
- Utilized physiological signals for fear recognition.
- Combined advanced feature engineering with a lightweight 1D-CNN model.
- Integrated hand-crafted features with deep learning convolutional techniques.
Main Results:
- Achieved 80% f1-score and 74% accuracy on the WEMAC dataset.
- Demonstrated significant performance improvements over previous models (11.6% accuracy, 26.4% F1-score).
- Validated the model on an ultra-low-power ARM Cortex-M4 architecture (16 mW power consumption, 496 ms inference time).
Conclusions:
- The proposed system is suitable for sustainable deep learning implementation in extreme-edge devices.
- Enables real-time fear recognition in wearable technology.
- Advances the field of affective computing for practical, low-power applications.

