Distilling Facial Emotional Cues into EEG Representations for Robust Emotion Recognition in Mental Health Monitoring
The paper proposes Cross-Modality Enhanced Distillation (C-MED), a framework that transfers multimodal EEG-facial knowledge to a deployable EEG-only student model via contrastive alignment and bilinear interaction, achieving robust, subject-independent emotion recognition on the SEED-VII and DEAP benchmarks without requiring synchronized facial data at inference.