Presentation 2015-05-21
Analysis on Reliability Function and Strong Converse of Discrete Memoryless Biometrical Identification Systems
Yachongka Vamoua, Hideki Yagi,
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Abstract(in English) The biometrical identification system, introduced by Willems et al., is a system to identify individuals based on measurable physical characteristics of each individual. Some of the most important factors on this system are rate of the number of individuals and identification error probability. The maximum value of identification error probability is called maximum error probability. Willems et al. have made clear that the identification capacity i.e. the maximum achievable rate of the number of individuals that can be distinguished with a vanishing error probability asymptotically, of a discrete memoryless system can be characterized from an information theoretic perspective. However, in proving the converse theorem, they provided a rigorous proof only for the case where each individual is uniformly distributed to be identified. In this paper, we investigate the reliability function of the system and show that it behaves in the same way as the well-known random coding error exponent. We also provide an explicit proof of the converse part provided that each individual is not uniformly distributed and the identification process is done without the knowledge of the prior distribution. In particular, we use Arimoto's argument to analyze a lower bound on the error probability, which also leads to the proof of the strong converse theorem for a non-uniform prior distribution.
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Keyword(in English) biometrical identification system / capacity / error probability / reliability function / strong converse
Paper # IT2015-3,EMM2015-3
Date of Issue 2015-05-14 (IT, EMM)

Conference Information
Committee EMM / IT
Conference Date 2015/5/21(2days)
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Place (in English) Kyoto International Community House
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Topics (in English) Information Security, Information Theory, Information Hiding, etc.
Chair Akinori Ito(Tohoku Univ.) / Yasutada Oohama(Univ. of Electro-Comm.)
Vice Chair Masashi Unoki(JAIST) / Masaki Kawamura(Yamaguchi Univ.) / Tadashi Wadayama(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.)
Secretary Masashi Unoki(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Masaki Kawamura(Nagasaki Univ.) / Tadashi Wadayama(Okayama Univ.)
Assistant Motoi Iwata(Osaka Pref. Univ.) / Kazuhiro Kono(Kansai Univ.) / Ryo Nomura(Senshu Univ.)

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Title (in English) Analysis on Reliability Function and Strong Converse of Discrete Memoryless Biometrical Identification Systems
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) biometrical identification system
Keyword(2) capacity
Keyword(3) error probability
Keyword(4) reliability function
Keyword(5) strong converse
1st Author's Name Yachongka Vamoua
1st Author's Affiliation The University of Electro-Communications(Univ. of Electro-Comm.)
2nd Author's Name Hideki Yagi
2nd Author's Affiliation The University of Electro-Communications(Univ. of Electro-Comm.)
Date 2015-05-21
Paper # IT2015-3,EMM2015-3
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) IT-37,EMM-38
Page pp.pp.13-18(IT), pp.13-18(EMM),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2015-05-14 (IT, EMM)