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With the rapid growth in smartphone usage, more organizations begin to focus on providing better services for mobile users. User identification can help these organizations to identify their customers and then cater services that have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Lichao Sun , Yuqi Wang , Bokai Cao , Philip S. Yu , Witawas Srisa-an , Alex D Leow

Nowadays, mobile smart devices are widely used in daily life. It is increasingly important to prevent malicious users from accessing private data, thus a secure and convenient authentication method is urgently needed. Compared with common…

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We propose a deep feature-based face detector for mobile devices to detect user's face acquired by the front facing camera. The proposed method is able to detect faces in images containing extreme pose and illumination variations as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Sayantan Sarkar , Vishal M. Patel , Rama Chellappa

In the past two decades, the number of mobile products being created by companies has grown exponentially. However, although these devices are constantly being upgraded with the newest features, the security measures used to protect these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Laura Pryor , Rushit Dave , Naeem Seliya , Evelyn R Sowells Boone

Mobile device users avoiding observational attacks and coping with situational impairments may employ techniques for eyes-free mobile unlock authentication, where a user enters his/her passcode without looking at the device. This study…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Flynn Wolf , Adam J. Aviv , Ravi Kuber

With the emergence of deep learning techniques, smartphone apps are now embedded on-device AI features for enabling advanced tasks like speech translation, to attract users and increase market competitiveness. A good interaction design is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Jason Ching Yuen Siu , Jieshan Chen , Yujin Huang , Zhenchang Xing , Chunyang Chen

Modern smartphones contain motion sensors, such as accelerometers and gyroscopes. These sensors have many useful applications; however, they can also be used to uniquely identify a phone by measuring anomalies in the signals, which are a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-09 Anupam Das , Nikita Borisov , Matthew Caesar

This work presents an automated touchless fingerprint recognition system for smartphones. We provide a comprehensive description of the entire recognition pipeline and discuss important requirements for a fully automated capturing system.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Jannis Priesnitz , Rolf Huesmann , Christian Rathgeb , Nicolas Buchmann , Christoph Busch

The widespread diffusion of connected smart devices has contributed to the rapid expansion and evolution of the Internet at its edge. Personal mobile devices interact with other smart objects in their surroundings, adapting behavior based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Mattia Giovanni Campana , Franca Delmastro

Camera-equipped mobile devices, such as phones, smart glasses, and AR headsets, pose a privacy challenge for bystanders, who currently lack effective real-time mechanisms to control the capture of their picture, video, including their face.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Jad Al Aaraj , Athina Markopoulou

Motion sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes measure the instant acceleration and rotation of a device, in three dimensions. Raw data streams from motion sensors embedded in portable and wearable devices may reveal private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Mohammad Malekzadeh , Richard G. Clegg , Andrea Cavallaro , Hamed Haddadi

The field of touch-based authentication has been rapidly developing over the last decade, creating a fragmented and difficult-to-navigate area for researchers and application developers alike due to the variety of methods investigated. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Martin Georgiev , Simon Eberz , Ivan Martinovic

Biometric signature verification has been traditionally performed in pen-based office-like scenarios using devices specifically designed for acquiring handwriting. However, the high deployment of devices such as smartphones and tablets has…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Richard Guest , Julian Fierrez , Javier Ortega-Garcia

Mobile advertising dominates app monetization but introduces risks ranging from intrusive user experience to malware delivery. Existing detection methods rely either on static analysis, which misses runtime behaviors, or on heuristic UI…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yizhe Zhao , Yongjian Fu , Zihao Feng , Hao Pan , Yongheng Deng , Yaoxue Zhang , Ju Ren

Advertisers are increasingly turning to fingerprinting techniques to track users across the web. As web browsing activity shifts to mobile platforms, traditional browser fingerprinting techniques become less effective; however, device…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Anupam Das , Nikita Borisov , Edward Chou , Muhammad Haris Mughees

Recognizing human activity plays a significant role in the advancements of human-interaction applications in healthcare, personal fitness, and smart devices. Many papers presented various techniques for human activity representation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Reem Abdel-Salam , Rana Mostafa , Mayada Hadhood

Smartphones bring significant convenience to users but also enable devices to extensively record various types of personal information. Existing smartphone agents powered by Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Zhixin Lin , Jungang Li , Shidong Pan , Yibo Shi , Yue Yao , Dongliang Xu

Mobile authentication using behavioral biometrics has been an active area of research. Existing research relies on building machine learning classifiers to recognize an individual's unique patterns. However, these classifiers are not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Cong Wang , Yanru Xiao , Xing Gao , Li Li , Jun Wang

The authentication field is evolving towards mechanisms able to keep users continuously authenticated without the necessity of remembering or possessing authentication credentials. While existing continuous authentication systems have…

Visual attention is highly fragmented during mobile interactions, but the erratic nature of attention shifts currently limits attentive user interfaces to adapting after the fact, i.e. after shifts have already happened. We instead study…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Julian Steil , Philipp Müller , Yusuke Sugano , Andreas Bulling