Embedded System for ECG Biometrics

André Matos, André Lourenço, Jose Nascimento

2013

Abstract

Biometric recognition has recently emerged has an alternative solution for applications where the privacy of the information is crucial. In this paper we present an embedded biometric recognition system based on the Electrocardiographic signals (ECG). The proposed system implements a real-time state-of-the-art recognition algorithm, which extracts information from the frequency domain, on an architecture based ARM Cortex 4. Using a sensor based on a two electrodes apparatus, the system is designed to be autonomous, non-intrusive and easy to use on different scenarios. Preliminary results show the successful real-time implementation on the embedded platform enabling its usage on a myriad of applications

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Matos A., Lourenço A. and Nascimento J. (2013). Embedded System for ECG Biometrics . In Proceedings of the International Congress on Cardiovascular Technologies - Volume 1: CARDIOTECHNIX, ISBN 978-989-8565-78-5, pages 27-33. DOI: 10.5220/0004703300270033


in Bibtex Style

@conference{cardiotechnix13,
author={André Matos and André Lourenço and Jose Nascimento},
title={Embedded System for ECG Biometrics},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Congress on Cardiovascular Technologies - Volume 1: CARDIOTECHNIX,},
year={2013},
pages={27-33},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004703300270033},
isbn={978-989-8565-78-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Congress on Cardiovascular Technologies - Volume 1: CARDIOTECHNIX,
TI - Embedded System for ECG Biometrics
SN - 978-989-8565-78-5
AU - Matos A.
AU - Lourenço A.
AU - Nascimento J.
PY - 2013
SP - 27
EP - 33
DO - 10.5220/0004703300270033