Analysis of factors that influence the performance of biometric systems based on EEG signals

Searching for new biometric traits is currently a necessity because traditional ones such as fingerprint, voice, or face are highly prone to forgery. A motivation for using electroencephalogram signals is that they are unique to each person and are much more difficult to replicate than conventional biometrics. This study aims to analyze the factors that influence the performance of a biometric system based on electroencephalogram signals. This work uses six different classifiers to compare several decomposition levels of the discrete wavelet transform as a preprocessing technique and also explores the importance of the recording time. This work proves that the decomposition level does not have a high impact on the system's overall result. On the other hand, the recording time of electroencephalograms has a significant impact on the classifiers' performance.