Towards using Single EEG Channel for Human Identity Verification

Abstract

Biometrics is an interesting area of research as a result of tremendous technological advances, especially in security. It is considered as an automated technology used for identification based on biological or behavioral human traits. An electroencephalogram (EEG) is the brain electrical activity signals considered as biological traits used in biometrics systems. The primary goal of this work is trying to find a single EEG channel to be used for human identification purposes. A single EEG channel recording is used for personal identity-based verification mode, which is preferred for many subjects with instant real-time system decisions. Percent residual difference (PRD) is a common quantitative measurement used to determine the human identity-based measures the distance between two signals. The proposed system sensitivity gives 100% using some single channels placed in the parietal and occipital lobes. The proposed system takes a short time in the enrolment process with an instant decision using verification mode, which is preferred with a large number of subjects. Also, using imaginary tasks is preferred for human identity verification.