Emotion recognition (valence/arousal) leaderboard

WESAD: AUROC (Valence)

3 reported results for emotion recognition (valence/arousal) on WESAD (Valence), ranked by AUROC. Top reported: DNA-PPG (0.737). Every row cites its source…

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This page ranks every result ChatPPG has recorded for emotion recognition (valence/arousal) on WESAD, measured by Area under ROC (higher is better). Each number is copied from the publication cited in its row, and ranks apply only within this dataset and metric and this protocol group.

Evaluation protocol: Valence — other benchmarks

Emotion recognition (valence/arousal): WESAD, Area under ROC. Reported rankings; evaluation protocols may differ.
RankMethod & evaluationArea under ROC↑ Higher is better
1DNA-PPG

DNA-PPG (frozen encoder, linear probe)

Evaluation details · open weights · caveat

Site: wrist (E4)

Caveat: Paper-protocol re-runs of all baselines; no split protocol stated; 95% CIs in paper.

Weights: open

0.737
2Moment

Moment (DNA-PPG benchmark)

Evaluation details · caveat

Site: wrist (E4)

Caveat: Same table.

0.616
3Hand-crafted features

Hand-crafted features (DNA-PPG benchmark)

Evaluation details · caveat

Site: wrist (E4)

Caveat: Same table; Chronos 0.577, TF-C 0.565, SimCLR 0.538, PaPaGei-S 0.533, BYOL 0.518.

0.596

Rows are ranked only within this task × dataset × metric and one protocol group. Protocols can still differ in detail; read each method's evaluation details before comparing.

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ChatPPG. (2026). WESAD AUROC leaderboard (Valence): emotion recognition (valence/arousal) [Data set]. ChatPPG Research Hub. https://chatppg.com/research/leaderboards/emotion/wesad-auroc-valence

BibTeX
@misc{chatppg_emotion_wesad_auroc_valence,
  author       = {{ChatPPG}},
  title        = {{WESAD AUROC leaderboard (Valence): emotion recognition (valence/arousal)}},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = nov,
  howpublished = {\url{https://chatppg.com/research/leaderboards/emotion/wesad-auroc-valence}},
  note         = {ChatPPG Research Hub}
}
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title: "WESAD AUROC leaderboard (Valence): emotion recognition (valence/arousal)"
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  - name: "ChatPPG"
url: "https://chatppg.com/research/leaderboards/emotion/wesad-auroc-valence"
date-released: "2026-11-05"