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Area of Science:

  • Biometrics
  • Signal Processing
  • Machine Learning

Background:

  • Microwave Doppler sensors measure physiological movements for biometric data.
  • Non-contact sensing offers privacy advantages over traditional biometrics.
  • This study explores non-contact seismocardiography for biometric authentication.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a non-contact heartbeat-based biometric authentication system.
  • To apply microwave Doppler sensing and machine learning for secure identification.
  • To address privacy concerns associated with current biometric technologies.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a 60 GHz microwave Doppler sensor to capture heartbeat signals.
  • Employed a conformer network for signal processing and feature extraction.
  • Applied a conditional variational autoencoder (CVAE) for subject-specific feature encoding and authentication.

Main Results:

  • Achieved an average balanced accuracy of 97.3% for authentication.
  • Attained an average accuracy of 94.7% for identification across 13 subjects.
  • Demonstrated superior performance in encoding subject-specific features and mitigating noise.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed method enhances the feasibility of non-contact, privacy-preserving biometric authentication.
  • High accuracy was achieved despite noise challenges, improving biometric security.
  • Future work should address posture variations and scalability for real-world applications.