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With the emerging of touch-less human-computer interaction techniques and gadgets, mid-air hand gestures have been widely used for authentication. Much literature examined either the usability or security of a handful of gestures. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Wenyuan Xu , Xiaopeng Li , Jing Tian , Yujun Xiao , Xianshan Qu , Song Wang , Xiaoyu Ji

Eye-tracking technology can aid in understanding neurodevelopmental disorders and tracing a person's identity. However, this technology poses a significant risk to privacy, as it captures sensitive information about individuals and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Abdul Rehman , Are Dæhlen , Ilona Heldal , Jerry Chun-wei Lin

Using password based authentication technique, a system maintains the login credentials (username, password) of the users in a password file. Once the password file is compromised, an adversary obtains both the login credentials. With the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Nilesh Chakraborty , Samrat Mondal

Smartphones store a significant amount of personal and private information, and are playing an increasingly important role in people's lives. It is important for authentication techniques to be more resistant against two known attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Matthew Lakier , Dimcho Karakashev , Yixin Wang , Ian Goldberg

This paper investigates the feasibility of fusing two eye-centric authentication modalities-eye movements and periocular images-within a calibration-free authentication system. While each modality has independently shown promise for user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dillon Lohr , Michael J. Proulx , Mehedi Hasan Raju , Oleg V. Komogortsev

In today's technology-driven world, web services have opened up new opportunities for blind and visually impaired people to interact independently. Securing interactions with these services is crucial; however, currently deployed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Md Mojibur Rahman Redoy Akanda , Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad , Nitesh Saxena

In this paper we address the issues of using edge detection techniques on facial images to produce cancellable biometric templates and a novel method for template verification against tampering. With increasing use of biometrics, there is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-01-23 Manoj Krishnaswamy , G. Hemantha Kumar

Despite significant advances in improving the gaze tracking accuracy under controlled conditions, the tracking robustness under real-world conditions, such as large head pose and movements, use of eyeglasses, illumination and eye type…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Nuri Murat Arar , Jean-Philippe Thiran

Shoulder surfing is a byproduct of smartphone use that enables bystanders to access personal information (such as text and photos) by making screen observations without consent. To mitigate this, several protection mechanisms have been…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Habiba Farzand , Karola Marky , Mohamed Khamis

This paper examines the key factors that influence the performance of state-of-the-art gaze-based authentication. Experiments were conducted on a large-scale, in-house dataset comprising 8,849 subjects collected with Meta Quest Pro…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Dillon Lohr , Michael J Proulx , Mehedi Hasan Raju , Oleg V Komogortsev

A biometric recognition system can operate in two distinct modes: identification or verification. In the first mode, the system recognizes an individual by searching the enrolled templates of all the users for a match. In the second mode,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Axel Durbet , Paul-Marie Grollemund , Kevin Thiry-Atighehchi

Biometrics involves using unique human traits, both physical and behavioral, for the digital identification of individuals to provide access to systems, devices, or information. Within the field of computer science, it acts as a method for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Sajjad Bhuiyan

Biometric recognition encompasses two operating modes. The first one is biometric identification which consists in determining the identity of an individual based on her biometrics and requires browsing the entire database (i.e., a 1:N…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Axel Durbet , Paul-Marie Grollemund , Pascal Lafourcade , Kevin Thiry-Atighehchi

Eye gaze contains rich information about human attention and cognitive processes. This capability makes the underlying technology, known as gaze tracking, a critical enabler for many ubiquitous applications and has triggered the development…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Lingyu Du , Jinyuan Jia , Xucong Zhang , Guohao Lan

Mobile applications are widely used for online services sharing a large amount of personal data online. One-time authentication techniques such as passwords and physiological biometrics (e.g., fingerprint, face, and iris) have their own…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Hossein Fereidooni , Jan König , Phillip Rieger , Marco Chilese , Bora Gökbakan , Moritz Finke , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Before deploying a new user authentication scheme, it is critical to subject the scheme to comprehensive study. Few works, however, have undertaken such a study. Recently, Thorpe et al. proposed GeoPass, the most promising of a class of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-08-14 Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen , Matthew Wright

As head-mounted displays (HMDs) with eye-tracking become increasingly accessible, the need for effective gaze-based interfaces in virtual reality (VR) grows. Traditional gaze- or hand-based navigation often limits user precision or impairs…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Mona Zavichi , André Santos , Catarina Moreira , Anderson Maciel , Joaquim Jorge

Password authentication is the most commonly used technique to authenticate the user validity. However, due to its simplicity, it is vulnerable to pseudo attacks. It can be enhanced using various biometric techniques such as thumb…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-08-04 Hazarath Munaga , J. V. R. Murthy , N. B. Venkateswarlu

Nowadays, user authentication is one of the important topics in information security. Strong textbased password schemes could provide with certain degree of security. However, the fact that strong passwords are difficult to memorize often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-12-08 Farnaz Towhidi , Maslin Masrom

A user's eyes provide means for Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research as an important modal. The time to time scientific explorations of the eye has already seen an upsurge of the benefits in HCI applications from gaze estimation to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Atul Sahay , Imon Mukherjee , Kavi Arya