揭露心电图生物识别中的数据泄露陷阱,提出可复现的基准框架。
ECG-biometrics-bench: A Unified Framework for Reproducible Benchmarking of ECG Biometrics

- 构建统一框架,标准化七大数据集的预处理与评估流程。
- 发现会话内划分导致性能虚高,真实场景下性能显著下降。
- 提出多会话模板融合策略,缓解时间老化带来的识别衰减。
心电图(ECG)生物识别在可穿戴设备中展现出连续、活体感知认证的潜力。然而,先前研究因数据泄露(如同一会话内随机划分)而报告过于乐观的结果。为此,我们提出 ECG-biometrics-bench,一个模块化、可复现的基准框架,统一了七个广泛使用的公开心电图数据集的预处理、分段与评估流程,涵盖临床、动态监测及大规模队列场景。该框架支持闭集与开集评估,以及逐步逼近真实场景的跨会话与长期时间分离协议。为促进可复现研究,代码库将在论文接受后公开于 GitHub。通过多数据集分析,我们揭示了‘随机划分谬误’:会话内评估人为提升性能,掩盖了由时间漂移和未见身份导致的严重退化。进一步评估 DeepECG、ResNet1D 与 CNN-LSTM 等架构表明,此类失败并非模型特有,可能源于当前监督特征学习范式的固有缺陷。最后,我们证明通过基于动态多会话模板融合的重注册、轻认证策略,可部分缓解时间老化带来的性能下降。这些发现为心电图生物识别建立了更真实的基准,并指出了实际部署所需解决的关键挑战。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Electrocardiogram (ECG) biometrics have emerged as a promising modality for continuous, liveness-aware authentication in wearable systems. However, many prior studies report overly optimistic results due to data leakage (e.g., random splits within the same session). To address this issue, we introduce ECG-biometrics-bench, a modular, reproducible benchmarking framework that standardizes preprocessing, segmentation, and evaluation across seven widely used public ECG datasets spanning clinical, ambulatory, and large-scale cohort settings. The framework supports both closed-set and open-set (i.e., subject-disjoint generalization in this work) evaluation, as well as progressively realistic protocols including cross-session and long-term temporal separation. To facilitate reproducible research in the community, the ECG-biometrics-bench repository will be made publicly accessible on GitHub upon the acceptance of this manuscript. Through a comprehensive multi-dataset analysis, we expose the Random Split Fallacy, demonstrating that intra-session evaluation protocols artificially inflate performance while masking severe degradation caused by temporal drift and unseen identities. Furthermore, by evaluating multiple architectures, including DeepECG, ResNet1D, and CNN-LSTM, we show that these failures are not model-specific but are likely inherent to current supervised feature-learning paradigms. Finally, we demonstrate that performance degradation due to temporal aging can be partially mitigated through a heavy enrollment, lightweight authentication strategy based on dynamic multi-session template fusion. These findings establish a more realistic baseline for ECG biometrics and highlight critical challenges that must be addressed for reliable real-world deployment.
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