IEICE Trans - Mobile Brainwaves: On the Interchangeability of Simple Authentication Tasks with Low-Cost, Single-Electrode EEG Devices

Mobile Brainwaves: On the Interchangeability of Simple Authentication Tasks with Low-Cost, Single-Electrode EEG Devices

Eeva-Sofia HAUKIPURO
Ville KOLEHMAINEN
Janne MYLLÄRINEN
Sebastian REMANDER
Janne SALO
Tuomas TAKKO
Le Ngu NGUYEN
Stephan SIGG
Rainhard Dieter FINDLING

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E102-B No.4 pp.760-767
Publication Date: 2019/04/01
Publicized: 2018/10/15
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.2018SEP0016
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Sensing, Wireless Networking, Data Collection, Analysis and Processing Technologies for Ambient Intelligence with Internet of Things)
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Keyword:
biometrics, classification, EEG, mobile, user authentication,

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Summary:
Biometric authentication, namely using biometric features for authentication is gaining popularity in recent years as further modalities, such as fingerprint, iris, face, voice, gait, and others are exploited. We explore the effectiveness of three simple Electroencephalography (EEG) related biometric authentication tasks, namely resting, thinking about a picture, and moving a single finger. We present details of the data processing steps we exploit for authentication, including extracting features from the frequency power spectrum and MFCC, and training a multilayer perceptron classifier for authentication. For evaluation purposes, we record an EEG dataset of 27 test subjects. We use three setups, baseline, task-agnostic, and task-specific, to investigate whether person-specific features can be detected across different tasks for authentication. We further evaluate, whether different tasks can be distinguished. Our results suggest that tasks are distinguishable, as well as that our authentication approach can work both exploiting features from a specific, fixed, task as well as using features across different tasks.