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Behavioral biometrics-based continuous authentication is a promising authentication scheme, which uses behavioral biometrics recorded by built-in sensors to authenticate smartphone users throughout the session. However, current continuous…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Mingming Hu , Kun Zhang , Ruibang You , Bibo Tu

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 behavioral biometrics have become a popular topic of research, reaching promising results in terms of authentication, exploiting a multimodal combination of touchscreen and background sensor data. However, there is no way of knowing…

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

In this paper we assess how well users know biometric authentication methods, how they perceive them, and if they have misconceptions about them. We present the results of an online survey that we conducted in two rounds (2019, N=57; and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Lukas Mecke , Alia Saad , Sarah Prange , Uwe Gruenefeld , Stefan Schneegass , Florian Alt

Biometrics are widely used for authentication in consumer devices and business settings as they provide sufficiently strong security, instant verification and convenience for users. However, biometrics are hard to keep secret, stolen…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Mozhgan Azimpourkivi , Umut Topkara , Bogdan Carbunar

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

Reliably identifying and verifying subjects remains integral to computer system security. Various novel authentication techniques, such as biometric authentication systems, have been developed in recent years. This paper provides a detailed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Rashik Shadman , Ahmed Anu Wahab , Michael Manno , Matthew Lukaszewski , Daqing Hou , Faraz Hussain

An empirical investigation of active/continuous authentication for smartphones is presented in this paper by exploiting users' unique application usage data, i.e., distinct patterns of use, modeled by a Markovian process. Variations of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Upal Mahbub , Jukka Komulainen , Denzil Ferreira , Rama Chellappa

Smartphones have ubiquitously integrated into our home and work environments, however, users normally rely on explicit but inefficient identification processes in a controlled environment. Therefore, when a device is stolen, a thief can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Muhammad Ahmad , Ali Kashif Bashir , Adil Mehmood Khan , Manuel Mazzara , Salvatore Distefano , Shahzad Sarfraz

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

The prevalence of biometric authentication has been on the rise due to its ease of use and elimination of weak passwords. To date, most biometric authentication systems have been designed for on-device authentication of the device owner…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Alexander Bienstock , Daniel Escudero , Antigoni Polychroniadou , Zhen Zeng , Pranav Bhat , Ashok Singal , Prashant Sharma , Manuela Veloso

Authentication schemes using tokens or biometric modalities have been proposed to ameliorate the security strength on mobile devices. However, the existing approaches are obtrusive since the user is required to perform explicit gestures in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-11 Thang Hoang , Deokjai Choi , Thuc Nguyen

Emerging technology demands reliable authentication mechanisms, particularly in interconnected systems. Current systems rely on a single moment of authentication, however continuous authentication systems assess a users identity utilizing a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Rasana Manandhar , Shaya Wolf , Mike Borowczak

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

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

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

Smartphones have become quite pervasive in various aspects of our daily lives. They have become important links to a host of important data and applications, which if compromised, can lead to disastrous results. Due to this, today's…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-15 Thingom Bishal Singha , Rajsekhar Kumar Nath , A. V. Narsimhadhan

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

We devised a mobile biometric-based authentication system only relying on local processing. Our Android open source solution explores the capability of current smartphones to acquire, process and match fingerprints using only its built-in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-13 J. S. Hammudoglu , J. Sparreboom , J. I. Rauhamaa , J. K. Faber , L. C. Guerchi , I. P. Samiotis , S. P. Rao , J. A. Pouwelse

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