Human Micro-Expression: A Novel Social Behavioral Biometric for Person Identification
Zaman Wahid, A. S. M. Hossain Bari, Fahim Anzum, Marina L. Gavrilova · IEEE Access · 2023
The reliance on Online Social Networks (OSN) for both formal and informal social interactions has dramatically changed the way people communicate. In this paper, a novel Social Behavioral Biometric (SBB), human micro-expression, is introduced for person identification. An emotion detection model is developed to extract emotion probability scores from person’s writing samples posted on Twitter. The corresponding emotion-progression features are extracted using an original technique that turns users’ microblogs into emotion-progression signals. Finally, a novel social behavioral biometric system that leverages rank-level weighted majority voting to achieve an accurate person identification is implemented. The proposed system is validated on a proprietary benchmark dataset consisting of 250 Twitter users. The experimental results convincingly demonstrate that the proposed social behavioral biometric, human micro-expression, possesses a strong distinguishable ability and can be used for person identification. The study further reveals that the proposed social behavioral biometric outperforms all the original SBB traits.