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This paper is focused on proving the concept that the EEG signals collected during a perception or mental task can be used for discrimination of individuals. The viability of the EEG-based person identification was successfully tested for a data base of 13 persons. Among various classifiers tested, Support Vector Machine (SVM) with Radial Basis Function (RBF) exhibits the best performance. The problem of static classification that does not take into account the temporal nature of the EEG sequence was considered by an empirical post classifier procedure. The algorithm proposed has an effect of introducing a memory into the classifier without increasing its complexity. Control of a classified access into restricted areas security systems, health disorder identification in medicine, gaining more understanding of the cognitive human brain processes in neuroscience are some of the potential applications of EEG-based biometry.
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Ferreira, A., Almeida, C., Georgieva, P., Tomé, A., Silva, F. (2010). Advances in EEG-Based Biometry. In: Campilho, A., Kamel, M. (eds) Image Analysis and Recognition. ICIAR 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13775-4_29
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