Key result
Bio-Radar systems achieve ~3.5% equal error rate for biometric authentication using matched same-day emotional stimuli.
Why the study?
Conventional biometric methods can be forged, and contact-based alternatives like ECG require sensor contact, prompting research into contactless options like Bio-Radar.
Bio-Radar systems using respiratory and cardiac signals show potential for biometric authentication, achieving low error rates under controlled conditions.
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Bio-radar biometrics may support contactless authentication; leaves open multi-day reliability and clinical validation.
Bio-Radar (BR) systems have shown great promise for biometric applications. Conventional methods can be forged, or fooled. Even alternative methods intrinsic to the user, such as the Electrocardiogram (ECG), present drawbacks as they require contact with the sensor. Therefore, research has turned towards alternative methods, such as the BR. In this work, a BR dataset with 20 subjects exposed to different emotion-eliciting stimuli (happiness, fearfulness, and neutrality) in different dates was explored. The spectral distributions of the BR signal were studied as the biometric template. Furthermore, this study included the analysis of respiratory and cardiac signals separately, as well as their fusion. The main test devised was authentication, where a system seeks to validate an individual’s claimed identity. With this test, it was possible to infer the feasibility of these type of systems, obtaining an Equal Error Rate (EER) of 3.48% if the training and testing data are from the same day and within the same emotional stimuli. In addition, the time and emotion results dependency is fully analysed. Complementary tests such as sensitivity to the number of users were also performed. Overall, it was possible to achieve an evaluation and consideration of the potential of BR systems for biometrics.
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Silva et al. (2024) studied Biometric authentication (n=20). Bio-Radar (BR) systems was evaluated on Authentication Equal Error Rate (EER). Bio-Radar systems achieved an Equal Error Rate of 3.48% for biometric authentication when training and testing data were from the same day and emotional stimuli.
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