A Comparative Study on Denoising Algorithms for Footsteps Sounds as Biometric in Noisy Environments

 

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Autores: Caravaca Mora, Ronald, Brenes Jiménez, Carlos, Coto Jiménez, Marvin
Formato: artículo original
Fecha de Publicación:2022
Descripción:Biometrics is the automated identification of a person based on distinctive characteristics, such as fingerprints, face, voice, or the sound of footsteps. This last characteristic has significant challenges considering the background noise present in any real-life application, where microphones would record footsteps sounds and different types of noise. For this reason, it is crucial to consider not only the capacity of classification algorithms for recognizing a person using foostetps sounds, but also at least one stage of denoising algorithms that can reduce the background sounds before the classification. In this paper we study the possibilities of a two-stage approach for this problem: a denoising stage followed by a classification process. The work focuses on discovering the proper strategy for applying combinations of both stages for specific noise types and levels. Results vary according to the type and level of noise, e.g., for White noise at signal-to-noise ratio level, accuracy can increase from 0.96 to 1.00 by applying deep learning based-filters, but the same option does not benefit the cases of signals with low level natural noises, where Wiener filtering can increase accuracy from 0.6 to 0.77 at the highest level of noise. The results represent a baseline for developing real-life implementations of footstep biometrics.
País:Kérwá
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Kérwá
Lenguaje:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/87186
Acceso en línea:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3197/10/8/133
https://hdl.handle.net/10669/87186
Palabra clave:BIOMETRICS
CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS
Filtering
Footsteps
NOISE