Electrocardiogram Feature Based Inter-human Biometric Authentication System

Abstract

Biometrics integrates various technologies to identify an individual by exploiting their physiological and behavioral characteristics, which are unique and measurable. This paper proposes a novel technique for the development of a robust and secure biometric authentication system. In this current work, an interhuman ECG-Hash code is generated by performing an inner product between the Electrocardiogram (ECG) feature matrices of two different individuals located remotely. The individuals will have each other's ECG features, stored in their database. The accuracy of the system increases as the authentication mechanism requires traits from both the individuals, amongst whom the transmission is taking place. Moreover, the use of ECG features as a biometric trait enhances the security aspects of the system as traits like fingerprints or facial features maybe compromised with age or otherwise.