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The widespread use of smartphones gives rise to new security and privacy concerns. Smartphone thefts account for the largest percentage of thefts in recent crime statistics. Using a victim's smartphone, the attacker can launch impersonation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Wei-Han Lee , Ruby Lee

This paper presents TouchAuth, a new touch-to-access device authentication approach using induced body electric potentials (iBEPs) caused by the indoor ambient electric field that is mainly emitted from the building's electrical cabling.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Zhenyu Yan , Qun Song , Rui Tan , Yang Li , Adams Wai Kin Kong

Recently, with the support of mobile cloud computing, a large number of health related data collected from various body sensor networks can be managed efficiently. However, to ensure data security and data privacy in cloud-integrated body…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Zhitao Guan , Tingting Yang , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani

Authentication and authorization are critical security layers to protect a wide range of online systems, services and content. However, the increased prevalence of wearable and mobile devices, the expectations of a frictionless experience…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Tim Van hamme , Vera Rimmer , Davy Preuveneers , Wouter Joosen , Mustafa A. Mustafa , Aysajan Abidin , Enrique Argones Rúa

Continuous authentication utilizes automatic recognition of certain user features for seamless and passive authentication without requiring user attention. Such features can be divided into categories of physiological biometrics and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Ahmed Fraz Baig , Sigurd Eskeland

Cashless payment systems offer many benefits over cash, but also have some drawbacks. Fake terminals, skimming, wireless connectivity, and relay attacks are persistent problems. Attempts to overcome one problem often lead to another - for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jack Sturgess , Ivan Martinovic

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

Wi-Fi Channel State Information (CSI) has been extensively studied for sensing activities. However, its practical application in user authentication still needs to be explored. This study presents a novel approach to biometric…

Protecting personal computers (PCs) from unauthorized access typically relies on password authentication, which is know to suffer from cognitive burden and weak credentials. As many users nowadays carry mobile devices with advanced security…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Andreas Pramendorfer , Rainhard Dieter Findling

Biometrics authentication has become increasingly popular due to its security and convenience; however, traditional biometrics are becoming less desirable in scenarios such as new mobile devices, Virtual Reality, and Smart Vehicles. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Huashan Chen , Yifan Xu , Yue Feng , Ming Jian , Feng Liu , Pengfei Hu , Kebin Peng , Sen He , Zi Wang

Wi-Fi signals may help realize low-cost and non-invasive human sensing, yet it can also be exploited by eavesdroppers to capture private information. Very few studies rise to handle this privacy concern so far; they either jam all sensing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Jun Luo , Hangcheng Cao , Hongbo Jiang , Yanbing Yang , Zhe Chen

Wi-Fi sensing has become an attractive option for non-invasive monitoring of human activities and vital signs. This paper explores the feasibility of using state-of-the-art commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) devices for Wi-Fi sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jiuyu Liu , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

Person re-identification (Re-ID) has become increasingly important as it supports a wide range of security applications. Traditional person Re-ID mainly relies on optical camera-based systems, which incur several limitations due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yili Ren , Jie Yang

Mobile devices store a diverse set of private user data and have gradually become a hub to control users' other personal Internet-of-Things devices. Access control on mobile devices is therefore highly important. The widely accepted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Mathias Payer , Reza Moazzezi , Mario Frank

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

In this paper, we provide an overview of fingerprint sensing methods used for authentication. We analyze the current fingerprint sensing technologies, from algorithmic, as well as from hardware perspectives. We then focus on methods to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Filipp Demenschonok , Jason Harrigan , Tamara Bonaci

Human motion detection is getting considerable attention in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven healthcare systems. Human motion can be used to provide remote healthcare solutions for vulnerable people by identifying particular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 William Taylor , Syed Aziz Shah , Kia Dashtipour , Adnan Zahid , Qammer H. Abbasi , Muhammad Ali Imran

Biometric authentication using physiological signals offers a promising path toward secure and user-friendly access control in wearable devices. While electrocardiogram (ECG) signals have shown high discriminability, their intrusive sensing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Wei Shao , Zequan Liang , Ruoyu Zhang , Ruijie Fang , Ning Miao , Ehsan Kourkchi , Setareh Rafatirad , Houman Homayoun , Chongzhou Fang

Having been studied for more than a decade, Wi-Fi human sensing still faces a major challenge in the presence of multiple persons, simply because the limited bandwidth of Wi-Fi fails to provide a sufficient range resolution to physically…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Jingzhi Hu , Tianyue Zheng , Zhe Chen , Hongbo Wang , Jun Luo

Users with limited use of their hands, such as people suffering from disabilities of the arm, shoulder, and hand (DASH), face challenges when authenticating with computer terminals, specially with publicly accessible terminals such as ATMs.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Dimitrios Damopoulos , Georgios Portokalidis