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The growing trend of using wearable devices for context-aware computing and pervasive sensing systems has raised its potentials for quick and reliable authentication techniques. Since personal writing habitats differ from each other, it is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Qi Lyu , Zhifeng Kong , Chao Shen , Tianwei Yue

Wireless earbuds are an appealing platform for wearable computing on-the-go. However, their small size and out-of-view location mean they support limited different inputs. We propose finger identification input on earbuds as a novel…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Jiwan Kim , Mingyu Han , Ian Oakley

We introduce a novel approach to user authentication called Motion ID. The method employs motion sensing provided by inertial measurement units (IMUs), using it to verify the persons identity via short time series of IMU data captured by…

Recent studies have shown how motion-based biometrics can be used as a form of user authentication and identification without requiring any human cooperation. This category of behavioural biometrics deals with the features we learn in our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Akriti Verma , Valeh Moghaddam , Adnan Anwar

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

Securely pairing wearables with another device is the key to many promising applications. This paper presents \textit{Touch-And-Guard (TAG)}, a system that uses hand touch as an intuitive manner to establish a secure connection between a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Wei Wang , Lin Yang , Qian Zhang

In this paper, a new behavioral biometric password based on haptic interaction is described. This "haptic password" system is built on a device that has a force-sensitive screen. The user authentication process leverages maximal overlap…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Junjie Yan , Tamara Bonaci , Howard Jay Chizeck

This work enhances traditional authentication systems based on Personal Identification Numbers (PIN) and One-Time Passwords (OTP) through the incorporation of biometric information as a second level of user authentication. In our proposed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Julian Fierrez

Despite widespread adoption of smartwatches worldwide, open-benchmarks for wrist-based gesture recognition remain surprisingly limited. In this work, we introduce the first open-access multi-modal benchmark, OpenWatch, for wrist-based…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Pietro Bonazzi , Youssef Ahmed , Daniel Eckert , Andrea Ronco , Junjie Zeng , Dengxin Dai , Michele Magno

Demand for smartwatches has taken off in recent years with new models which can run independently from smartphones and provide more useful features, becoming first-class mobile platforms. One can access online banking or even make payments…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Bowen Du , Hongkai Wen , Sen Wang , Andrew Markham , Ivan Martinovic , Yiran Shen , Niki Trigoni

We study the feasibility of touch gesture behavioural biometrics for implicit authentication of users on a smartglass (Google Glass) by proposing a continuous authentication system using two classifiers: SVM with RBF kernel, and a new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Jagmohan Chauhan , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Mohamed Ali Kaafar , Anirban Mahanti

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

In recent years the amount of secure information being stored on mobile devices has grown exponentially. However, current security schemas for mobile devices such as physiological biometrics and passwords are not secure enough to protect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Rushit Dave , Naeem Seliya , Laura Pryor , Mounika Vanamala , Evelyn Sowells , Jacob mallet

As smart wearable devices become increasingly powerful and pervasive, protecting user privacy on these devices has emerged as a critical challenge. While existing authentication mechanisms are available for interaction-rich devices such as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiacheng Liu , Jiankai Tang , Guangye Zhao , Ruichen Gui , Songqin Cheng , Taiting Lu , Jian Liu , Weiqiang Wang , Mahanth Gowda , Yuanchun Shi , Yuntao Wang

Biometric systems based on Machine learning and Deep learning are being extensively used as authentication mechanisms in resource-constrained environments like smartphones and other small computing devices. These AI-powered facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Mohit Raghavendra , Pravan Omprakash , B R Mukesh , Sowmya Kamath

Passwords remain a widely-used authentication mechanism, despite their well-known security and usability limitations. To improve on this situation, next-generation authentication mechanisms, based on behavioral biometric factors such as eye…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Matin Fallahi , Patricia Arias Cabarcos , Thorsten Strufe

Passwords are still used on a daily basis for all kind of applications. However, they are not secure enough by themselves in many cases. This work enhances password scenarios through two-factor authentication asking the users to draw each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Julian Fierrez , Javier Ortega-Garcia

User authentication can rely on various factors (e.g., a password, a cryptographic key, biometric data) but should not reveal any secret or private information. This seemingly paradoxical feat can be achieved through zero-knowledge proofs.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Laurent Chuat , Sarah Plocher , Adrian Perrig

Tele-operated robots rely on real-time user behavior mapping for remote tasks, but ensuring secure authentication remains a challenge. Traditional methods, such as passwords and static biometrics, are vulnerable to spoofing and replay…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Rongyu Yu , Kan Chen , Zeyu Deng , Chen Wang , Burak Kizilkaya , Liying Emma Li

The security of private information is becoming the bedrock of an increasingly digitized society. While the users are flooded with passwords and PINs, these gold-standard explicit authentications are becoming less popular and valuable.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 William Cheung , Sudip Vhaduri