An artificial neural network framework for gait based biometrics
File(s)
Accepted version
Author(s)
Sun, Y
Lo, B
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
OAPA As the popularity of wearable and implantable Body Sensor Network (BSN) devices increases, there is a growing concern regarding the data security of such power-constrained miniaturized medical devices. With limited computational power, BSN devices are often not able to provide strong security mechanisms to protect sensitive personal and health information, such as one's physiological data. Consequently, many new methods of securing Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have been proposed recently. One effective solution is the Biometric Cryptosystem (BCS) approach. BCS exploits physiological and behavioral biometric traits, including face, iris, fingerprints, Electrocardiogram (ECG), and Photoplethysmography (PPG). In this paper, we propose a new BCS approach for securing wireless communications for wearable and implantable healthcare devices using gait signal energy variations and an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) framework. By simultaneously extracting similar features from BSN sensors using our approach, binary keys can be generated on demand without user intervention. Through an extensive analysis on our BCS approach using a gait dataset, the results have shown that the binary keys generated using our approach have high entropy for all subjects. The keys can pass both NIST and Dieharder statistical tests with high efficiency. The experimental results also show the robustness of the proposed approach in terms of the similarity of intra-class keys and the discriminability of the inter-class keys.
Date Issued
2019-05-01
Date Acceptance
2018-07-21
Citation
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2019, 23 (3), pp.987-998
ISSN
2168-2194
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
987
End Page
998
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Volume
23
Issue
3
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
British Council (UK)
Grant Number
330760239
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Computer Science, Information Systems
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Medical Informatics
Computer Science
Wearable security
gait biometrics
artificial neural network
data privacy
wireless communications
IoT security
AUTHENTICATION
RECOGNITION
ACCELEROMETER
SENSORS
Publication Status
Published online
Date Publish Online
2018-08-02