title: Check your biosignals here: a new dataset for off-the-person ECG biometrics.
abstract: The Check Your Biosignals Here initiative (CYBHi) was developed as a way of creating a dataset and consistently repeatable acquisition framework, to further extend research in electrocardiographic (ECG) biometrics. In particular, our work targets the novel trend towards off-the-person data acquisition, which opens a broad new set of challenges and opportunities both for research and industry. While datasets with ECG signals collected using medical grade equipment at the chest can be easily found, for off-the-person ECG data the solution is generally for each team to collect their own corpus at considerable expense of resources. In this paper we describe the context, experimental considerations, methods, and preliminary findings of two public datasets created by our team, one for short-term and another for long-term assessment, with ECG data collected at the hand palms and fingers.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal. Electronic address: hsilva@lx.it.pt.
authors.forename: Hugo Plácido
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal; Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, 1959-007 Lisboa, Portugal. Electronic address: alourenco@deetc.isel.ipl.pt.
authors.forename: André
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lourenço
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal. Electronic address: afred@lx.it.pt.
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fred
authors.affiliation: Escola Superior de Saúde, Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa, 1300-125 Lisboa, Portugal. Electronic address: nraposo@esscvp.eu.
authors.forename: Nuno
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Raposo
authors.affiliation: Escola Superior de Saúde, Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa, 1300-125 Lisboa, Portugal. Electronic address: msousa@esscvp.eu.
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aires-de-Sousa
mesh_terms: D001699:Biometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004566:Electrodes; D006801:Humans; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
keywords: Biometrics; Dataset; Electrocardiography; Off-the-person