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Analyzing a person’s handwriting for recognizing his/her emotional state
Chudárek, Aleš ; Matoušek, Jiří (oponent) ; Malik, Aamir Saeed (vedoucí práce)
Emotion recognition from handwriting is a challenging and interdisciplinary task that can provide insights into the psychological and emotional aspects of the writer. In this study, we developed and evaluated a machine learning model that can predict the emotional state of a writer from their handwriting samples. We utilized the EMOTHAW dataset, which consists of handwriting and drawing samples from subjects whose emotional states are measured by the DASS test, which gives a score for depression, anxiety, and stress and the CIU Handwritten database for verification and experimentation. We extracted a large number of features that are inspired by the standard graphology work, as well as features that are specific to online data. We used ANOVA to select statistically significant features and normalized the data using Z-Score, MinMax, IQR or Log. We reduced the dimensionality of the features using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). We employed a meta approach Ensemble learning that seeks to reduce the errors of a single model by exploiting the diversity and complementarity of multiple models. The structure of our classifier is dependent on multiple arguments resulting in over 300,000 different configurations. We optimized arguments using argument freezing. We found the best classifiers for binary and trinary classification for each emotion, resulting in six optimal models. We evaluated our models using different metrics, such as accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score. Our models reached adequate results in all metrics. In addition to finding the classifiers, this thesis explored the importance of each extracted feature, providing a sorted list of the most significant features used for emotion recognition from handwriting. We also enhanced the EMOTHAW database by identifying tasks that are more indicative of specific emotions, thereby reducing the need for a full task battery for emotional analysis.
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