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This paper explores supervised techniques for continuous anomaly detection from biometric touch screen data. A capacitive sensor array used to mimic a touch screen as used to collect touch and swipe gestures from participants. The gestures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-11 John Peruzzi , Phillip Andrew Wingard , David Zucker

Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) is a type of challenge-response test widely used in authentication systems. A well-known challenge it faces is the CAPTCHA farm, where workers are hired to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Rui Jin , Yong Liao , Pengyuan Zhou

We present a large-scale study exploring the capability of temporal deep neural networks to interpret natural human kinematics and introduce the first method for active biometric authentication with mobile inertial sensors. At Google, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Natalia Neverova , Christian Wolf , Griffin Lacey , Lex Fridman , Deepak Chandra , Brandon Barbello , Graham Taylor

Continuous authentication in high-stakes digital environments requires datasets with fine-grained behavioral signals under realistic cognitive and motor demands. But current benchmarks are often limited by small scale, unimodal sensing or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ishpuneet Singh , Gursmeep Kaur , Uday Pratap Singh Atwal , Guramrit Singh , Gurjot Singh , Maninder Singh

We propose a lightweight, and temporally and spatially aware user behaviour modelling technique for sensor-based authentication. Operating in the background, our data driven technique compares current behaviour with a user profile. If the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Hilmi Gunes Kayacik , Mike Just , Lynne Baillie , David Aspinall , Nicholas Micallef

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

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

This paper studies continuous authentication for touch interface based mobile devices. A Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based behavioral template training approach is presented, which does not require training data from other subjects other than…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Aditi Roy , Tzipora Halevi , Nasir Memon

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

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

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

Self-touch gestures (e.g., nuanced facial touches and subtle finger scratches) provide rich insights into human behaviors, from hygiene practices to health monitoring. However, existing approaches fall short in detecting such micro gestures…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Siyuan Wang , Ke Li , Jingyuan Huang , Jike Wang , Cheng Zhang , Alanson Sample , Dongyao Chen

This paper focuses on how touch interactions on smartphones can provide a continuous user authentication service through behaviour captured by a touchscreen. While efforts are made to advance touch-based behavioural authentication,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Peter Aaby , Mario Valerio Giuffrida , William J Buchanan , Zhiyuan Tan

We introduce a novel multimodal mobile database called HuMIdb (Human Mobile Interaction database) that comprises 14 mobile sensors acquired from 600 users. The heterogeneous flow of data generated during the interaction with the smartphones…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Alejandro Acien , Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Ivan Bartolome

This research aims to quantify human walking patterns through depth cameras to (1) detect walking pattern changes of a person with and without a motion-restricting device or a walking aid, and to (2) identify distinct walking patterns from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Behnam Malmir

This paper investigates whether computer usage profiles comprised of process-, network-, mouse-, and keystroke-related events are unique and consistent over time in a naturalistic setting, discussing challenges and opportunities of using…

Motion tracking "telemetry" data lies at the core of nearly all modern virtual reality (VR) and metaverse experiences. While generally presumed innocuous, recent studies have demonstrated that motion data actually has the potential to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Vivek Nair , Christian Rack , Wenbo Guo , Rui Wang , Shuixian Li , Brandon Huang , Atticus Cull , James F. O'Brien , Marc Latoschik , Louis Rosenberg , Dawn Song

In this paper, we propose a deep learning approach for smartphone user identification based on analyzing motion signals recorded by the accelerometer and the gyroscope, during a single tap gesture performed by the user on the screen. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Cezara Benegui , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Insider threats are a particularly tricky cybersecurity issue, especially in zero-trust architectures (ZTA) where implicit trust is removed. Although the rule of thumb is never trust, always verify, attackers can still use legitimate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Gaurav Sarraf

This paper investigates neural network-based biometric authentication using finger-drawn digits on touchscreen devices. We evaluated CNN and autoencoder architectures for user authentication through simple digit patterns (0-9) traced with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Maan Al Balkhi , Kordian Gontarska , Marko Harasic , Adrian Paschke