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Separately, closed-set neural analyses provide exploratory upper bounds rather than leakage-free subject-wise results: a Raw MLP reaches 83.7 per cent accuracy, whereas adding DWT statistics does not improve this result (81.2 per cent for Combined MLP), and SpectralCNN reaches 74 per cent. Confusion matrix analysis reveals that residual errors are concentrated among subject pairs with statistically overlapping signatures, suggesting the presence of intrinsically hard users and a potential biometric ceiling for this modality. Embedded profiling on an STM32F446RE Cortex-M4 microcontroller indicates that lifting-based wavelet features enable low-latency, low-energy scoring, requiring approximately 0.55 ms and 18 micro-J per 256-point spectrum for Lift-bior feature extraction plus Random Forest inference (versus approx. 33 micro-J for the equivalent db4-DWT pipeline). 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