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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

Wearable technologies are envisaged to provide critical support to future healthcare systems. Hearables - devices worn in the ear - are of particular interest due to their ability to provide health monitoring in an efficient, reliable and…

The conventional wisdom has been that designing ultra-compact, battery-constrained wireless hearables with on-device speech AI models is challenging due to the high computational demands of streaming deep learning models. Speech AI models…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Malek Itani , Tuochao Chen , Arun Raghavan , Gavriel Kohlberg , Shyamnath Gollakota

Opposed to standard authentication methods based on credentials, biometric-based authentication has lately emerged as a viable paradigm for attaining rapid and secure authentication of users. Among the numerous categories of biometric…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Nibras Abo Alzahab , Angelo Di Iorio , Marco Baldi , Lorenzo Scalise

Recent advances in machine learning and natural language processing have fostered the enormous prosperity of smart voice assistants and their services, e.g., Alexa, Google Home, Siri, etc. However, voice spoofing attacks are deemed to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Chenpei Huang , Hui Zhong , Jie Lian , Pavana Prakash , Dian Shi , Yuan Xu , Miao Pan

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

The multimedia evolution has led to increased audio signal bandwidth in new generations of smartphones, headsets, headphones, as well as hearing aids. Full audio bandwidth performance, up to 20 kHz, is required. This calls for wider band…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-11-09 Søren Jønsson , Andreas Schuhmacher , Henrik Ingerslev Jørgensen

Sensory earables have evolved from basic audio enhancement devices into sophisticated platforms for clinical-grade health monitoring and wellbeing management. This paper introduces OmniBuds, an advanced sensory earable platform integrating…

Mobile devices and technologies have become increasingly popular, offering comparable storage and computational capabilities to desktop computers allowing users to store and interact with sensitive and private information. The security and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Mohammed Abuhamad , Ahmed Abusnaina , DaeHun Nyang , David Mohaisen

With the rapid advancement of technology, different biometric user authentication, and identification systems are emerging. Traditional biometric systems like face, fingerprint, and iris recognition, keystroke dynamics, etc. are prone to…

This paper is targeted in the area of biometric data enabled security system based on the machine learning for the digital health. The disadvantages of traditional authentication systems include the risks of forgetfulness, loss, and theft.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Amang Song-Kyoo Kim , Chan Yeob Yeun , Paul D. Yoo

Prevailing user authentication schemes on smartphones rely on explicit user interaction, where a user types in a passcode or presents a biometric cue such as face, fingerprint, or iris. In addition to being cumbersome and obtrusive to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Debayan Deb , Arun Ross , Anil K. Jain , Kwaku Prakah-Asante , K. Venkatesh Prasad

Respiratory rate (RR) monitoring is integral to understanding physical and mental health and tracking fitness. Existing studies have demonstrated the feasibility of RR monitoring under specific user conditions (e.g., while remaining still,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Yang Liu , Kayla-Jade Butkow , Jake Stuchbury-Wass , Adam Pullin , Dong Ma , Cecilia Mascolo

In this paper, we show that the tap gesture, performed when a user 'taps' a smartwatch onto an NFC-enabled terminal to make a payment, is a biometric capable of implicitly authenticating the user and simultaneously recognising…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jack Sturgess , Simon Eberz , Ivo Sluganovic , Ivan Martinovic

Silent speech interface (SSI) enables hands-free input without audible vocalization, but most SSI systems do not verify speaker identity. We present HEar-ID, which uses consumer active noise-canceling earbuds to capture low-frequency…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Xuefu Dong , Liqiang Xu , Lixing He , Zengyi Han , Ken Christofferson , Yifei Chen , Akihito Taya , Yuuki Nishiyama , Kaoru Sezaki

We present an open-access dataset of over 8000 acoustic impulse from 160 microphones spread across the body and affixed to wearable accessories. The data can be used to evaluate audio capture and array processing systems using wearable…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Ryan M. Corey , Naoki Tsuda , Andrew C. Singer

Automatic sleep staging typically relies on gold-standard EEG setups, which are accurate but obtrusive and impractical for everyday use outside sleep laboratories. This limits applicability in real-world settings, such as home environments,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Philipp Lepold , Jonas Leichtle , Tobias Röddiger , Michael Beigl

Smart glasses have become more prevalent as they provide an increasing number of applications for users. They store various types of private information or can access it via connections established with other devices. Therefore, there is a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ke Li , Devansh Agarwal , Ruidong Zhang , Vipin Gunda , Tianjun Mo , Saif Mahmud , Boao Chen , François Guimbretière , Cheng Zhang

As market wearables are becoming popular with a range of services, including making financial transactions, accessing cars, etc. that they provide based on various private information of a user, security of this information is becoming very…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-28 William Cheung , Sudip Vhaduri

In recent years, there has been a shift of interest towards the field of biometric authentication, which proves the identity of the user using their biological characteristics. We explore a novel biometric based on the electrical activity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Nikita Samarin , Donald Sannella