Facial StO2: A New Promising Biometric Identity

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a new biometric identity, facial tissue oxygen saturation (StO2). StO2 is an index of blood oxygen content in tissues and is related to blood vessel distribution pattern and metabolic rate. Experimental results show that classification accuracy can reach 83.33% in 42 participants with different stress states by using StO2 as the only input to the ResNet-50 model. We also proposed a module called StO2Net to eliminate the effects of stress on classification. The highest accuracy can reach up to 90.48% when the module is used. This pilot study shows that facial StO2 can be a promising biometric feature for identity recognition.