Original Article | 2010, Vol.32, No.3, pp. 241-246
ECG based biometrics verification system using LabVIEW
Sunil Kumar Singla and Ankit Sharma
pp. 241 - 246
Abstract
Biometric based authentication systems provide solutions to the problems in high security which remain with conventional security systems. In a biometric verification system, human’s biological parameters (such as voice, finger print, palm print or hand geometry, face, iris etc.) are used to verify the authenticity of a person. These parameters are good to be used as biometric parameters but do not provide the guarantee that the person is present and alive. As voice can be copied, finger print can be picked from glass on synthetic skin and in face recognition system due to genetic factors identical twins or father-son may have the same facial appearance. ECG does not have these problems. It can not be recorded without the knowledge of the person and ECG of every person is unique even identical twins have different ECG. In this paper an ECGbased biometrics verification system which was developed using Laboratory Virtual Instruments Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW) version 7.1 is discussed. Experiments were conducted on the database stored in the laboratory of 20 individuals having 10 samples each and the results revealed a false rejection rate (FRR) of 3% and false acceptance rate (FAR) of 3.21%.
