Publications by authors named "Edith C H Ngai"

Steady state visually evoked potential (SSVEP)-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), which are widely used in rehabilitation and disability assistance, can benefit from real-time emotion recognition to enhance human-machine interaction. However, the learned discriminative latent representations in SSVEP-BCIs may generalize in an unintended direction, which can lead to reduced accuracy in detecting emotional states. In this paper, we introduce a Valence-Arousal Disentangled Representation Learning (VADL) method, drawing inspiration from the classical two-dimensional emotional model, to enhance the performance and generalization of emotion recognition within SSVEP-BCIs.

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The correlation between children's personal and family characteristics (e.g., demographics and socioeconomic status) and their physical and mental health status has been extensively studied across various research domains, such as public health, medicine, and data science.

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The worldwide spread of COVID-19 has caused significant damage to people's health and economics. Many works have leveraged machine learning models to facilitate the control and treatment of COVID-19. However, most of them focus on clinical medicine and few on understanding the spatial dynamics of the high-risk population for transmission of COVID-19 in real-world settings.

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Location information is a key element of participatory sensing. Many mobile and sensing applications require location information to provide better recommendations, object search and trip planning. However, continuous GPS positioning consumes much energy, which may drain the battery of mobile devices quickly.

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