Deep learning improves gait biometric recognition accuracy.
problem Low accuracy in existing CSI-based gait identification systems.
method Developed an end-to-end deep CSI learning system using deep neural networks.
result Achieved a top-1 accuracy of 97.12% for a dataset of 30 people.
Gait patterns reveal emotions, offering a non-invasive method for automated recognition.
problem Automated emotion recognition from gait patterns.
method Data collection, preprocessing, and classification techniques.
result Gait patterns can indicate different emotion states, making them a promising source for emotion detection.
Compared to other biometrics, gait is difficult to conceal and has the advantage of being unobtrusive. Inertial sensors, such as accelerometers and gyroscopes, are often used to capture gait dynamics. These inertial sensors are commonly integrated into smartphones and are widely used by the average person, which makes …
New system uses wearable bio-signals for easy authentication.
problem Security of private information on wearables is a concern.
method Context-dependent soft-biometric authentication using heart rate, gait, and breathing audio.
result Binary SVM with RBF kernel achieves high accuracy and low EER.
Study uses GMM-UBM and i-vectors to assess Parkinson's patients via speech, handwriting, and gait.
problem Assessing neurological state of Parkinson's disease patients using speech, handwriting, and gait signals.
method GMM-UBM and i-vectors applied to speech, handwriting, and gait signals.
result Different feature sets from each signal are crucial for assessing Parkinson's patients.
New approach learns walk and trot gaits from simulated quadruped using strategic exploration.
problem Learning symmetric gaits (walk and trot) from high-dimensional action spaces.
method Introduced symmetry properties into initial covariance of Gaussian search distribution for strategic exploration. Used episode-based likelihood ratio policy gradient and relative entropy policy search.
result Significant performance enhancement in learning walk and trot gaits compared to random gaits.
Study provides long-term EMG data for multi-day biometric authentication.
problem Limited long-term EMG data for multi-day biometric authentication.
method Collected EMG data from 43 participants over three days.
result Multi-day biometric authentication results in low error rates.
Phone sensors could be useful in assessing changes in gait that occur with alcohol consumption. This study determined (1) feasibility of collecting gait-related data during drinking occasions in the natural environment, and (2) how gait-related features measured by phone sensors relate to estimated blood alcohol concen…
Study investigates XAI methods in clinical gait analysis.
problem Limited understanding of machine learning models in healthcare.
method XAI methods, specifically Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP), to explain ML predictions.
result Explanations from LRP show promising statistical and clinical relevance.
Machine learning improves accuracy of running gait event detection from tibial acceleration.
problem Accurate detection of running gait events from tibial acceleration data.
method Structured machine learning models compared to heuristic methods.
result Structured recurrent neural network model offers most accurate estimation of gait events.
Deep convolutional architecture identifies eye movements for biometric faster and more accurately.
problem Biometric identification of eye movements for authentication.
method Developed a deep convolutional architecture to process raw eye-tracking signals.
result Achieved a lower error rate by one order of magnitude and faster identification time by two orders of magnitude.
Paper predicts TUG score from gait characteristics using machine learning.
problem Assessing fall risk in the elderly.
method 3D pose estimation, gait characteristics computation, copula entropy selection, predictive models.
result Effectiveness of the proposed method demonstrated on real-world data.
Machine learning (ML) techniques such as (deep) artificial neural networks (DNN) are solving very successfully a plethora of tasks and provide new predictive models for complex physical, chemical, biological and social systems. However, in most cases this comes with the disadvantage of acting as a black box, rarely pro…
Enhanced ECG biometric system improves authentication accuracy.
problem Traditional authentication methods have security issues.
method Developed an ECG-based authentication system using machine learning.
result Achieved up to 92% identification accuracy.
GAIT-prop derives a biologically plausible learning rule from backpropagation.
problem Biological implausibility in traditional backpropagation for neural networks.
method GAIT-prop uses a top-down model to convert output error into plausible targets for weight updates.
result GAIT-prop and backpropagation give identical weight updates under certain conditions.
This study compares different data preprocessing methods for gait analysis.
problem Improving the generalizability of machine learning models in gait analysis.
method Compared various data preprocessing steps including filtering, time derivative, normalization, and scaling.
result Different preprocessing combinations affect gait classification performance.
With increasing concerns about security, the need for highly secure physical biometrics-based authentication systems utilizing \emph{cancelable biometric} technologies is on the rise. Because the problem of cancelable template generation deals with the trade-off between template security and matching performance, many …
Deep learning identifies unique walking patterns from pressure data.
problem Tackling the challenge of accurately identifying individuals based on their walking style.
method Used deep learning, specifically convolutional neural networks (CNNs), to analyze the center-of-pressure trajectory of 36 adults walking on a treadmill.
result CNNs achieved 99.9% accuracy in classifying 2,250 segments and 100% accuracy in fine-tuning a subset of 4,500 segments, suggesting unique pressure patterns for each person.
The design of gaits for robot locomotion can be a daunting process which requires significant expert knowledge and engineering. This process is even more challenging for robots that do not have an accurate physical model, such as compliant or micro-scale robots. Data-driven gait optimization provides an automated alter…
A common problem in large-scale data analysis is to approximate a matrix using a combination of specifically sampled rows and columns, known as CUR decomposition. Unfortunately, in many real-world environments, the ability to sample specific individual rows or columns of the matrix is limited by either system constrain…
New gait segmentation method identifies users and adversaries with high accuracy.
problem Simultaneous identification of users and adversaries from accelerometer data.
method Geometric features and a new similarity metric for time series analysis.
result 98.79% accuracy for 6 classes (user-adversary identification) and 99.06% for binary (user only identification).
Footfall based biometric system is perhaps the only person identification technique which does not hinder the natural movement of an individual. This is a clear edge over all other biometric systems which require a formidable amount of human intervention and encroach upon an individual's privacy to some extent or the o…
Deep RL learns robot walking gaits in real-world environments.
problem Difficulty in applying deep RL to real-world robotic tasks due to poor sample complexity and hyperparameter sensitivity.
method Sample-efficient deep RL algorithm based on maximum entropy RL, requiring minimal per-task tuning and modest trials.
result Acquired stable walking gaits on a real-world Minitaur robot in about two hours.
Deep RNN detects FoG episodes in Parkinson's disease with high accuracy.
problem Detecting freezing episodes in Parkinson's disease patients.
method Deep Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) with Long Short-Term Memory cells on 3D-accelerometer measurements.
result Frequency domain features from trunk sensor achieve an AUC score of 93% in subject-independent method.
Pre-trained model from healthy ADLs improves gait pattern classification for Parkinson's disease.
problem Limited training data for deep learning models in healthcare applications.
method Used convolutional autoencoder to extract features from healthy ADLs data and trained a multi-layer perceptron model for Parkinson's disease classification.
result Features extracted from healthy ADLs data can be used to train an effective classification model for Parkinson's disease.
Wi-Fi signals-based person identification attracts increasing attention in the booming Internet-of-Things era mainly due to its pervasiveness and passiveness. Most previous work applies gaits extracted from WiFi distortions caused by the person walking to achieve the identification. However, to extract useful gait, a p…
OpticNet predicts IOL optical properties from biometric data, outperforming current methods.
problem Precise prediction of IOL optical properties for cataract surgery.
method Unsupervised, domain-specific, physically motivated optical refraction network.
result OpticNet outperforms current methods in predicting IOL optical properties.
New models for insurance claims accounting for delays.
problem Delayed claims processing affects real-time policy development.
method Introducing transaction time models to describe multi-state life insurance.
result Explicit expressions for transaction time reserves derived.
The use of EEG biometrics, for the purpose of automatic people recognition, has received increasing attention in the recent years. Most of current analysis rely on the extraction of features characterizing the activity of single brain regions, like power-spectrum estimates, thus neglecting possible temporal dependencie…
Adversarial deep learning improves EEG-based person identification.
problem Exploiting temporally correlated structures and session variability in EEG data.
method Adversarial inference approach to learn session-invariant representations.
result Improvements in person identification robustness from longitudinal EEG data.
Pairwise quantile regression tackles similarity scoring in biometric systems.
problem Analyzing errors in similarity scoring for facial recognition.
method Established theoretical guarantees for pairwise quantile regression solutions, leveraging sharp concentration results for U-processes. result Proved generalization bounds and identified conditions for fast learning rates.
Study uses stacked hourglass networks to improve facial landmark detection for medical diagnosis.
problem Improving accuracy of facial landmark detection for medical diagnosis.
method Conducted a study on landmark localisation methods using stacked hourglass networks.
result State-of-the-art stacked hourglass architecture outperforms traditional methods.
Machine learning classifies Parkinson's Disease stages from walker sensors data.
problem Limited cost-effective methods for quantitatively assessing Parkinson's Disease stages.
method Machine learning applied to walker-mounted sensors data, feature selection methods compared.
result Feature selection method using ANOVA provides similar accuracy to full feature set and is clinically interpretable.
New model for disability insurance reserving handles delays in claim information.
problem Disability insurance claims are affected by long delays and adjudication processes.
method Proposes a new individual reserving model for real-time claim evolution.
result Shows that new reserves can be calculated as modifications of classic reserves.
PerCDL learns personalized dictionaries for physiological signals combining global and local structures.
problem Representing datasets with both global and local structures in human physiological signals.
method Personalized Convolutional Dictionary Learning (PerCDL) that combines a global and personalized local dictionary.
result PerCDL effectively learns interpretable representations for human locomotion data.
A new framework for mobile authentication using deep metric learning.
problem Challenges in mobile authentication using behavioral biometrics.
method Deep metric learning, private data protection, flexible training scheduling.
result 95% authentication accuracy on public datasets, robust against attacks.
Bayesian model predicts circular data with fast Gibbs sampling.
problem Predicting circular data in scientific fields.
method Expressive von Mises quasi-processes with Stratonovich augmentation for posterior inference.
result Fast Gibbs sampling for posterior inference.
In this paper, we propose to employ a bank of modality-dedicated Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), fuse, train, and optimize them together for person classification tasks. A modality-dedicated CNN is used for each modality to extract modality-specific features. We demonstrate that, rather than spatial fusion at the…
ECGID research focuses on rest but not exercise, this study evaluates both.
problem ECGID performance under exercise is insufficiently studied.
method Various learning methods applied to ECG dataset.
result Current ECGID methods fail under exercise conditions.
A comparative study of the application of Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and Radial Basis Function (RBF) in biometric recognition of voice has been carried out and presented. The application of machine learning techniques to biometric authentication and recognition problems has gained a widespread acceptance. In this res…
Deep learning detects arrhythmia from RR-interval ECG data.
problem Diagnosing arrhythmia using ECG data.
method Convolutional neural network (CNN) on time-sliced RR-interval data.
result Compact system achieves accurate arrhythmia detection.
Paper defends iris recognition from adversarial examples using wavelet decomposition.
problem Adversarial examples threaten deep neural networks in biometric applications.
method Wavelet domain denoising of input examples to detect and mitigate adversarial attacks.
result Proposed defense strategies improve recognition accuracy against adversarial attacks.
Model uses smartphone data to assess MS trajectories.
problem Personalized longitudinal MS assessment.
method Imputation, generalized estimation equation, ensemble learning, fine-tuning.
result Promising model for predicting MS over time.
Active authentication is the problem of continuously verifying the identity of a person based on behavioral aspects of their interaction with a computing device. In this study, we collect and analyze behavioral biometrics data from 200subjects, each using their personal Android mobile device for a period of at least 30…
We build CSI-Net, a unified Deep Neural Network~(DNN), to learn the representation of WiFi signals. Using CSI-Net, we jointly solved two body characterization problems: biometrics estimation (including body fat, muscle, water, and bone rates) and person recognition. We also demonstrated the application of CSI-Net on tw…
Biometrics emerged as a robust solution for security systems. However, given the dissemination of biometric applications, criminals are developing techniques to circumvent them by simulating physical or behavioral traits of legal users (spoofing attacks). Despite face being a promising characteristic due to its univers…
Study shows not all ML models are uniquely identifiable from data.
problem Identifiability issues in machine learning models.
method Investigated through a case study on gait dynamics using a bipedal-spring mass model.
result Some parameters can be identified, but others remain unidentifiable.
ES-VAE models skeletal pose trajectories by removing nuisance factors.
problem Handling camera orientation, subject scale, viewpoint, and execution speed in skeletal data.
method ES-VAE uses TSRVF representation on Kendall's shape manifold to isolate shape dynamics.
result ES-VAE outperforms standard VAEs and sequence modeling baselines in gait cycle prediction and action recognition.