Task Sensitivity in Continuous Electroencephalogram Person Authentication

Abstract

This research investigates on the task sensitivity in multimodal stimulation task for continuous person authentication using the electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. Pattern analysis aims to train from historical examples for prediction on the unseen data. However, data trials in EEG stimulation consists of inseparable cognitive information that is difficult to ensure that the testing trials contain the cognitive information matching to the training data. Since the EEG signals are unique across individuals, we assume that multimodal stimulation task in EEG analysis is not sensitive in train-test data trials control. Data trial inconsistency during training and testing can still be used as biometrics to authenticate a person. The EEG signals were collected using the 10-20 systems from 20 healthy subjects. During data acquisition, subjects were asked to operate a computer and perform various computer-related tasks (e.g.: mouse click, mouse scrolling, keyboard typing, browsing, reading, video watching, music listening, playing computer games, and etc.) as their preferences, without interruption. Features extracted from Welch’s estimated Power Spectral Density in different frequency bands were tested. The designed authentication approach computed intra- and inter-personal variability using Mahalanobis distance to authenticate subject. The proposed EEG continuous authentication approach has succeeded. Data collected from multimodal stimulus disregard of task sensitivity able to authenticate subject, where the highest verification performance shown in the low-Beta frequency band. Evidence found that effective frequency region on the middle band was anticipated due to the data collected was based on subject voluntary actions. Future research will focus on the effect of subject voluntary and involuntary actions on the effective frequency region.