Svm for human identification using the ECG signal

Abstract

In this paper, a person identification system has been simulated using electrocardiogram (ECG) signals as biometrics. In this work, we propose a two-phase method to conduct human identification using the ECG signal, which are the feature extraction and the classification. In the first phase, it makes a fusion of three new types of characteristics: cepstral coefficients, ZCR, and entropy. In the second phase, the support vector machines (SVM) has been applied for the classification system. The proposed methods are evaluated using two public databases namely MIT-BIH arrhythmia and ECG-ID database obtained from the Physionet database. Experimental results show that our features can achieve high subject identification accuracy of 100% on ECG signals that are from the MIT-BIH database, ECG-ID (Five recording), and ECG-ID (Two recording), indicating that our features makes it possible to improve the efficiency of our identification system.