Individual Identification by Late Information Fusion of EmgCNN and EmgLSTM from Electromyogram Signals

This paper is concerned with individual identification by late fusion of two-stream deep networks from Electromyogram (EMG) signals. EMG signal has more advantages on security compared to other biosignals exposed visually, such as the face, iris, and fingerprints, when used for biometrics, at least in the aspect of visual exposure, because it is measured through contact without any visual exposure. Thus, we propose an ensemble deep learning model by late information fusion of convolutional neural networks (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) from EMG signals for robust and discriminative biometrics. For this purpose, in the ensemble model’s first stream, one-dimensional EMG signals were converted into time–frequency representation to train a two-dimensional convolutional neural network (EmgCNN). In the second stream, statistical features were extracted from one-dimensional EMG signals to train a long short-term memory (EmgLSTM) that uses sequence input. Here, the EMG signals were divided into fixed lengths, and feature values were calculated for each interval. A late information fusion is performed by the output scores of two deep learning models to obtain a final classification result. To confirm the superiority of the proposed method, we use an EMG database constructed at Chosun University and a public EMG database. The experimental results revealed that the proposed method showed performance improvement by 10.76% on average compared to a single stream and the previous methods.