Effect of propagation signal and path on verification performance using intra-body propagation signals

Abstract

Biometrics is the verification or the identification method of users by measuring and analyzing their biometric data, which is only applicable to continuous authentication in a system. In particular, unconsciously presentable biometric modalities are also applicable to an authentication system. As such a biometrics, to use intra-body propagation signals that propagate on a body surface as electromagnetic waves have been proposed. In conventional approaches, verification performance on palms has been evaluated by a white signal as a propagation signal. In this paper, it is reported that the effects of using a synthesized signal by sinusoidal waves with fixed amplitudes and phases instead of the white signal and propagating this signal on other body parts on verification.