In the use of the spontaneous pupillary oscillations as a new biometric trait

It is presented a novel pupillary-based identification system, along with the early identity authentication results and analysis, based on the spatio-temporal features computed from the spontaneous pupillary oscillations. The authors demonstrate that this biometric trait has the capability to provide enough discriminative information to authenticate the identity of a subject. A new methodology to compute the spatio-temporal biometric template recordings of the pupil area changes, in a video-oculography sequence under constant luminance level, is also introduced in this paper. According to the authors' knowledge, there is no evidence that other attempts were made, addressing this methodology to distinguish individuals based on the spatiotemporal representations, computed from the normal dilation-contraction behavior of the pupil. Liveness will be detected by using the information obtained from the spontaneous pupillary oscillation mechanism. Preliminary experiments were conducted by using a particular own collected database, resulting in a (Equal Error Rate) in the order of 0.2338%.