ECG biometric recognition: A comparative analysis. Odinaka, I., Lai, P., H., Kaplan, A., D., O'Sullivan, J., a., Sirevaag, E., J., & Rohrbaugh, J., W. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 7(6):1812-1824, 2012.
ECG biometric recognition: A comparative analysis [pdf]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
The electrocardiogram (ECG) is an emerging biometric modality that has seen about thirteen years of development, in peer-reviewed literature, and as such deserves a systematic review and discussion of the associated methods and findings. In this paper, we review most of the techniques that have been applied to the use of the electrocardiogram for biometric recognition. In particular, we categorize the methodologies based on the features and the classification schemes. Finally, a comparative analysis of the authentication performance of a few of the ECG biometric systems is presented, using our in-house database. The comparative study includes the cases where training and testing data come from the same and different sessions (days). The authentication results show that most of the algorithms that have been proposed for ECG based biometrics perform well, when the training and testing data come from the same session. However, when training and testing data come from different sessions, a performance degradation occurs. Multiple training sessions were incorporated to diminish the loss in performance. That notwithstanding, only a few of the proposed ECG recognition algorithms appear to be able to support performance improvement due to multiple training sessions. Only three of these algorithms produced equal error rates (EERs) in the single digits, including an EER of 5.5% using a method proposed by us.

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