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Evidence of task-independent person-specific signatures in EEG using subspace techniques

Abstract

Electroencephalography (EEG) signals are promising as alternatives to other biometrics owing to their protection against spoofing. Previous studies have focused on capturing individual variability by analyzing task/condition-specific EEG. This work attempts to model biometric signatures independent of task/condition by normalizing the associated variance. Toward this goal, the paper extends ideas from subspace-based text-independent speaker recognition and proposes novel modifications for modeling multi-channel EEG data. The proposed techniques assume that biometric information is present in the entire EEG signal and accumulate statistics across time in a high dimensional space. These high dimensional statistics are then projected to a lower dimensional space where the biometric information is preserved. The lower dimensional embeddings obtained using the proposed approach are shown to be task …

Date
2021
Authors
Mari Ganesh Kumar, Shrikanth Narayanan, Mriganka Sur, Hema A Murthy
Journal
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Volume
16
Pages
2856-2871
Publisher
IEEE