Electroencephalography (EEG) for biometric authentication
has received some attention in recent years. In this paper,
we explore the effect of three simple EEG related
authentication tasks, namely resting, thinking about a
picture, and moving a single finger, on mobile, low-cost,
single electrode based EEG authentication. We present
details of our authentication pipeline, including
extracting features from the frequency power spectrum and
MFCC, and training a multilayer perceptron classifier for
authentication. For our evaluation we record an EEG dataset
of 27 test subjects. We use a baseline, task-agnostic, and
task-specific evaluation setup to investigate if different
tasks can be used in place of each other for
authentication. We further evaluate if tasks themselves can
be told apart from each other. Evaluation results suggest
that tasks differ, hence to some extent are
distinguishable, as well as that our authentication
approach can work in a task-specific as well as in a
task-agnostic manner.
@article{Haukipuro_19_MobileBrainwavesInterchangeability, author = {Haukipuro, Eeva-Sofia and Kolehmainen, Ville and Myll\"arinen, Janne and Remander, Sebastian and Salo, Janne and Takko, Tuomas and Nguyen, {Le Ngu} and Sigg, Stephan and Findling, {Rainhard Dieter}}, title = {Mobile Brainwaves: On the Interchangeability of Simple Authentication Tasks with Low-Cost, Single-Electrode EEG Devices}, journal = {IEICE Transactions on Communications, Special Section on Sensing, Wireless Networking, Data Collection, Analysis and Processing Technologies for Ambient Intelligence with Internet of Things}, year = {2019}, volume = {E102-B}, number = {4}, month = apr, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1587/transcom.2018SEP0016}, keywords = {biometrics, classification, EEG, mobile, user authentication}, url = {https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/transcom/advpub/0/advpub_2018SEP0016/_article/-char/en} }