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Personal Identification Using Features of Toilet Paper Winding Motion

Ryoan Yamamoto, Keníchi Takahashi, Toshihiko Sasama, Kota Masaki

IEEJ Transactions on Electronics Information and Systems | May 31, 2026

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In recent years, the number of patients with lifestyle-related diseases has been increasing. Some lifestyle-related diseases progress without symptoms and regular checkups, thus, continuous recording of individual health information are considered important for prevention. Therefore, systems that automatically record health information such as blood pressure, body temperature, composition of urine and feces are being developed by installing sensors in the toilet used in daily life. However, it is necessary to identify each individual toilet user because toilets are expected to be used by multiple people. Therefore, Kurahashi et al(1). identified individuals using an angular velocity sensor installed inside a toilet paper core. However, it uses only feature values such as the amount of toilet paper used and the maximum rewind speed, and identification results using the K-NearestNeighbour method (K=1) were only reported. Therefore, we analyze toilet paper winding motions to examine features effective for personal identification, and evaluate the identification accuracy using other classification methods. As a result, we confirmed that the identification accuracy was improved by adding new features on the toilet paper winding motion.

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Ryoan Yamamoto

middle | Tottori University

Keníchi Takahashi

middle | Tottori University | ORCID 0009-0009-1377-6848

Toshihiko Sasama

last | Tottori University

Kota Masaki

first | Tottori University

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@article{Yamamoto2026Personal,
  title = {Personal Identification Using Features of Toilet Paper Winding Motion},
  author = {Ryoan Yamamoto and Keníchi Takahashi and Toshihiko Sasama and Kota Masaki},
  journal = {IEEJ Transactions on Electronics Information and Systems},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1541/ieejeiss.146.607},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1541/ieejeiss.146.607}
}

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