Can Heart and Brain Participate in Biometric Authentication Process?
After successfully involving human fingers, face, irises and other body parts in high-profile biometric products, the biometric developers are planning to introduce something big in the industry. Though, it is at nascent stage currently and might take years to mark its presence in the market, but once it gets developed, it can add a new dimension to the sophisticated biometric security provisions.
Brain and heart patterns are the new areas of research for the biometric developers to make their use in full-proof user authentication process. Over the years of existence of biometric technology, it has been proved that fingerprints, face patterns and even voice patterns can be forged by the criminals. However, faking the brain and heart patterns, belonging to an individual, is going to be next to impossible.
Technologies Already Existing
Most of you are familiar with electrocardiogram (ECG) that record heart rhythms and electroencephalogram (EEG) that help the medical experts to analyze the brain patterns. Needless to say, the use of both these technologies has made it possible for the medical experts to discover the disorders in two important human body parts. Both of these technologies can significantly contribute towards the development of improved biometric systems.
What will be required to move further is the integration of these technologies with biometric analysis to develop the capable biometric systems. Rest, the process would be same as that used for enrolling, storing and verifying the biometric samples using fingerprint scanners, face scanners and so on.
Possible Areas of Application
When developed, the brain pattern recognition or heart beat recognition using biometrics can prove to be useful in various biometric applications. Here are some of the examples:
- For authentication at the airport entry points that definitely require a sophisticated authentication technology.
- Border crossing points to avoid illegal exchange of people through international boundaries.
- Banks, labs and many other security-sensitive areas can be facilitated with the development of the two new biometric technologies.
European biometric researchers are working on the projects to deliver some results in the nearby future. Biometrics is expected to take a giant leap with it.
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written by Arghya Goswami , September 01, 2010
I believe sampling of huge numbers of EEG and ECG from different individuals will give out the following:
a) the common characteristics in EEG and ECG among the sampled number of people.
b) the Uniqueness or uncommon characteristics in EEG and ECG among the sampled number of people.
However how do you differentiate the diseased state VS normal state and abnormalities caused by the diseases in EEG and ECG and ensure that it is not cause some unique patterns.
Also the condition of the heart and brain changes over the period of time how does the biometric minutea captured would remain same?
