The document discusses using a convolutional neural network (CNN) to perform emotion recognition from multichannel EEG signals. The objective is to generate topographic images from an augmented DEAP dataset and classify the images into a valence-arousal model. The workflow involves collecting raw EEG signals, performing noise cancellation, augmenting the data to generate 2D topographic images, extracting features using CNN, and classifying emotions. The CNN algorithm is trained and validated on the topographic images classified into the valence-arousal model.