Title: A comparison of verification in the temporal and cepstrum-transformed domains of Transient Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions for biometric identification

Authors: Paul Chambers, Neil J. Grabham, Matthew A. Swabey, Mark E. Lutman, Neil M. White, John E. Chad, Stephen P. Beeby

Addresses: School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK. ' School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK. ' School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK. ' Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK. ' School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK. ' School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK. ' School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK

Abstract: An investigation of methods for the use of Transient Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions (TEOAE) as an identification biometric is described in this paper. Three methods to calculate the Euclidean distance between individuals are investigated: interpretation of area-under-the-curve information from time-series TEOAE; measurement in the temporal domain between a TEOAE and reference template; measurement in the cepstral domain between a TEOAE and reference template. False acception and rejection rates (FAR&FRR) are given for test data. In this study maximal performance was given by the temporal domain Euclidian distance, giving 1.27%FAR and 0%FRR for a data set with 230 recordings from 23 subjects.

Keywords: biometric identification; otoacoustic emissions; ears; biometrics; security; verification; cochlea; human ear.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBM.2011.040818

International Journal of Biometrics, 2011 Vol.3 No.3, pp.246 - 264

Received: 10 Aug 2010
Accepted: 04 Jan 2011

Published online: 24 Jan 2015 *

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