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Demonstrating Eye Movement Biometrics in Virtual Reality

Human-Computer Interaction 2022-07-07 v1
Authors: Dillon Lohr , Saide Johnson , Samantha Aziz , Oleg Komogortsev
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Abstract

Thanks to the eye-tracking sensors that are embedded in emerging consumer devices like the Vive Pro Eye, we demonstrate that it is feasible to deliver user authentication via eye movement biometrics.

Keywords

virtual reality biometric recognition

Cite

@article{arxiv.2207.02325,
  title  = {Demonstrating Eye Movement Biometrics in Virtual Reality},
  author = {Dillon Lohr and Saide Johnson and Samantha Aziz and Oleg Komogortsev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.02325},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Demo presented at ETRA '22. Poster and video available at https://www.doi.org/10.18738/T8/WPEXGW

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