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Human activity recognition has wide applications in medical research and human survey system. In this project, we design a robust activity recognition system based on a smartphone. The system uses a 3-dimentional smartphone accelerometer as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-02-03 Amin Rasekh , Chien-An Chen , Yan Lu

Static authentication methods, like passwords, grow increasingly weak with advancements in technology and attack strategies. Continuous authentication has been proposed as a solution, in which users who have gained access to an account are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Nyle Siddiqui , Rushit Dave , Naeem Seliya , Mounika Vanamala

In this paper, automated user verification techniques for smartphones are investigated. A unique non-commercial dataset, the University of Maryland Active Authentication Dataset 02 (UMDAA-02) for multi-modal user authentication research is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Upal Mahbub , Sayantan Sarkar , Vishal M. Patel , Rama Chellappa

Current mobile user authentication systems based on PIN codes, fingerprint, and face recognition have several shortcomings. Such limitations have been addressed in the literature by exploring the feasibility of passive authentication on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Giuseppe Stragapede , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Ruben Tolosana , Aythami Morales , Alejandro Acien , Gael Le Lan

Due to the openness of the wireless medium, smartphone users are susceptible to user privacy attacks, where user privacy information is inferred from encrypted Wi-Fi wireless traffic. Existing attacks are limited to recognizing mobile apps…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Yong Huang , Zhibo Dong , Xiaoguang Yang , Dalong Zhang , Qingxian Wang , Zhihua Wang

The widespread use of earphones has enabled various sensing applications, including activity recognition, health monitoring, and context-aware computing. Among these, earphone-based user authentication has become a key technique by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Lei Wang , Jiangxuan Shen , Xi Zhang , Dalin Zhang , Jingyu Li , Haipeng Dai , Chenren Xu , Daqing Zhang , He Huang

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yadong Xie , Fan Li , Yu Wang

Life expectancy keeps growing and, among elderly people, accidental falls occur frequently. A system able to promptly detect falls would help in reducing the injuries that a fall could cause. Such a system should meet the needs of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Daniela Micucci , Marco Mobilio , Paolo Napoletano , Francesco Tisato

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

Large-scale collection of human behavioral data by companies raises serious privacy concerns. We show that behavior captured in the form of application usage data collected from smartphones is highly unique even in very large datasets…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Vedran Sekara , Enys Mones , Håkan Jonsson

Among user authentication methods, behavioural biometrics has proven to be effective against identity theft as well as user-friendly and unobtrusive. One of the most popular traits in the literature is keystroke dynamics due to the large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Giuseppe Stragapede , Paula Delgado-Santos , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Richard Guest , Aythami Morales

In contemporary mobile user authentication systems, verifying user legitimacy has become paramount due to the widespread use of smartphones. Although fingerprint and facial recognition are widely used for mobile authentication, PIN-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Yooshin Kim , Namhyeok Kwon , Donghoon Shin

Loneliness is a critical mental health issue among university students, yet traditional monitoring methods rely primarily on retrospective self-reports and often lack real-time behavioral context. This study explores the use of passive…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Qianjie Wu , Tianyi Zhang , Hong Jia , Simon D'Alfonso

One-time login process in conventional authentication systems does not guarantee that the identified user is the actual user throughout the session. However, it is necessary to re-verify the user identity periodically throughout a login…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Abbas Acar , Hidayet Aksu , A. Selcuk Uluagac , Kemal Akkaya

The broad usage of mobile devices nowadays, the sensitiveness of the information contained in them, and the shortcomings of current mobile user authentication methods are calling for novel, secure, and unobtrusive solutions to verify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Giuseppe Stragapede , Paula Delgado-Santos , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Richard Guest , Aythami Morales

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 research aims to further understanding in the field of continuous authentication using behavioral biometrics. We are contributing a novel dataset that encompasses the gesture data of 15 users playing Minecraft with a Samsung Tablet,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Pedro Gomes do Nascimento , Pidge Witiak , Tucker MacCallum , Zachary Winterfeldt , Rushit Dave

Motion sensors (e.g., accelerometers) on smartphones have been demonstrated to be a powerful side channel for attackers to spy on users' inputs on touchscreen. In this paper, we reveal another motion accelerometer-based attack which is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-05-25 Jingyu Hua , Zhenyu Shen , Sheng Zhong

As nowadays most web application requests originate from mobile devices, authentication of mobile users is essential in terms of security considerations. To this end, recent approaches rely on machine learning techniques to analyze various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-28 David Monschein , Oliver P. Waldhorst

Continuous, ubiquitous monitoring through wearable sensors has the potential to collect useful information about users' context. Heart rate is an important physiologic measure used in a wide variety of applications, such as fitness tracking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Nutta Homdee , Mehdi Boukhechba , Yixue W. Feng , Natalie Kramer , John Lach , Laura E. Barnes