Cross-day analysis of Multicode Surface Electromyography based Biometrics for Personal Identification

Recently, surface electromyography (sEMG) has emerged as a novel biometric trait for personal identification, potentially providing a superior spoof-resistant solution over existing traits. The sEMG possesses a unique dual-mode security: they differ between individuals (biometric-mode), and different gestures have different sEMG characteristics (knowledge-mode). To leverage the knowledge-mode facet of the dual-mode security, the previous studies have utilized a multicode framework involving the fusion of codes (gestures), however, the analysis involved data recorded on a single day and from a small subject-pool. In this study, wrist EMG data collected from 43 participants over three different days while performing static hand/wrist gestures was utilized in two cross-day analyses, where the training and testing data were from different days. Three levels of fusion, score, rank, and decision were investigated to determine the optimal fusion scheme. The results showed that the score-level fusion scheme resulted in a median rank-1 accuracy of 77.9% and rank-5 accuracy of 99.6%, all significantly higher (p<0.001) than the respective single-code gesture. Our results showed that the multicode sEMG biometric framework provides superior identification performance in a more realistic cross-day scenario.