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Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Yasith Amarasinghe , Darshana Sandaruwan , Thilina Madusanka , Indika Perera , Lakmal Meegahapola

The potential of facial expression reconstruction technology is significant, with applications in various fields such as human-computer interaction, affective computing, and virtual reality. Recent studies have proposed using ear-worn…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Xianrong Yao , Lingde Hu , Dong She , Yincheng Jin , Yang Gao , Zhanpeng Jin

The development of technology biometrics becomes crucial more. To define human characteristic biometric systems are used but because of inability of traditional biometric systems to recognize twins, multimodal biometric systems are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Cihan Akin , Umit Kacar , Murvet Kirci

With the emergence of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), there is a growing need for access control and data protection on low-power, pervasive devices. Biometric-based authentication is promising for IoT due to its convenient nature and lower…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Nima Karimian , Zimu Guo , Fatemeh Tehranipoor , Damon Woodard , Mark Tehranipoor , Domenic Forte

Biometrics involves using unique human traits, both physical and behavioral, for the digital identification of individuals to provide access to systems, devices, or information. Within the field of computer science, it acts as a method for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Sajjad Bhuiyan

Biometric authentication is increasingly popular for its convenience and accuracy. However, while recent advancements focus on reducing errors and expanding modalities, the reliability of reported performance metrics often remains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Matin Fallahi , Ragini Ramesh , Pankaja Priya Ramasamy , Patricia Arias Cabarcos , Thorsten Strufe , Philipp Terhörst

Though playing an essential role in smart home systems, smart speakers are vulnerable to voice spoofing attacks. Passive liveness detection, which utilizes only the collected audio rather than the deployed sensors to distinguish between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yan Meng , Jiachun Li , Matthew Pillari , Arjun Deopujari , Liam Brennan , Hafsah Shamsie , Haojin Zhu , Yuan Tian

A limiting factor towards the wide routine use of wearables devices for continuous healthcare monitoring is their cumbersome and obtrusive nature. This is particularly true for electroencephalography (EEG) recordings, which require the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Laura M. Ferrari , Guy Abi Hanna , Paolo Volpe , Esma Ismailova , François Bremond , Maria A. Zuluaga

Smart earbuds are recognized as a new wearable platform for personal-scale human motion sensing. However, due to the interference from head movement or background noise, commonly-used modalities (e.g. accelerometer and microphone) fail to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Dong Ma , Andrea Ferlini , Cecilia Mascolo

Many promising applications of multimodal wearables require continuous sensing and heavy computation, yet users reject such devices due to privacy concerns. This paper shares our experiences building an ear-mounted voice-and-vision wearable…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yonatan Tussa , Andy Heredia , Nirupam Roy

Many hearables contain an in-ear microphone, which may be used to capture the own voice of its user in noisy environments. Since the in-ear microphone mostly records body-conducted speech due to ear canal occlusion, it suffers from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-25 Mattes Ohlenbusch , Christian Rollwage , Simon Doclo

In the past few years it has been demonstrated that electroencephalography (EEG) can be recorded from inside the ear (in-ear EEG). To open the door to low-profile earpieces as wearable brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), this work presents a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-30 Ryan Kaveh , Justin Doong , Andy Zhou , Carolyn Schwendeman , Karthik Gopalan , Fred Burghardt , Ana C. Arias , Michel Maharbiz , Rikky Muller

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological diseases globally (around 50 million people worldwide). Fortunately, up to 70% of people with epilepsy could live seizure-free if properly diagnosed and treated, and a reliable technique to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Abdul Aziz , Nhat Pham , Neel Vora , Cody Reynolds , Jaime Lehnen , Pooja Venkatesh , Zhuoran Yao , Jay Harvey , Tam Vu , Kan Ding , Phuc Nguyen

Several therapy routines require deep breathing exercises as a key component and patients undergoing such therapies must perform these exercises regularly. Assessing the outcome of a therapy and tailoring its course necessitates monitoring…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-20 Hassam Khan Wazir , Zaid Waghoo , Vikram Kapila

We present ClearBuds, the first hardware and software system that utilizes a neural network to enhance speech streamed from two wireless earbuds. Real-time speech enhancement for wireless earbuds requires high-quality sound separation and…

The human ear canal couples the external sound field to the eardrum and the solid parts of the middle ear. Therefore, knowledge of the acoustic impedance of the human ear is widely used in the industry to develop audio devices such as…

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

Identity verification is an increasingly important process in our daily lives, and biometric recognition is a natural solution to the authentication problem. One of the most important research directions in the field of biometrics is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-05-23 Francesco Beritelli , Andrea Spadaccini

Smartphones are now frequently used by end-users as the portals to cloud-based services, and smartphones are easily stolen or co-opted by an attacker. Beyond the initial log-in mechanism, it is highly desirable to re-authenticate end-users…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Wei-Han Lee , Ruby Lee

While on-body device-based human motion estimation is crucial for applications such as XR interaction, existing methods often suffer from poor wearability, expensive hardware, and cumbersome calibration, which hinder their adoption in daily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Siqi Zhu , Yixuan Li , Junfu Li , Qi Wu , Zan Wang , Haozhe Ma , Wei Liang

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