Paper Info
Title
Enabling Finger-Touch-Based Mobile User Authentication via Physical Vibrations on IoT Devices
Abstract
This work enables mobile user authentication via finger inputs on ubiquitous surfaces leveraging low-cost physical vibration. The system we proposed extends finger-input authentication beyond touch screens to any solid surface for IoT devices (e.g., smart access systems and IoT appliances). Unlike passcode or biometrics-based solutions, it integrates passcode, behavioral and physiological characteristics, and surface dependency together to provide a low-cost, tangible and enhanced security solution. The proposed system builds upon a touch sensing technique with vibration signals that can operate on surfaces constructed from a broad range of materials. New algorithms are developed to discriminate fine-grained finger inputs and supports three independent passcode secrets including PIN number, lock pattern, and simple gestures by extracting unique features in the frequency domain to capture both behavioral and physiological characteristics including contacting area, touching force, and etc. The system is implemented using a single pair of low-cost portable vibration motor and receiver that can be easily attached to any surface (e.g., a door panel, a stovetop or an appliance). Extensive experiments demonstrate that our system can authenticate users with high accuracy (e.g., more than 97 percent within two trials), low false positive rate (e.g., less 2 percent) and is robust to various types of attacks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TMC.2021.3057083
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
User authentication,finger-input,physical vibration,ubiquitous surfaces
Journal
21
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
1536-1233
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
25
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xin Yang101.35
Song Yang200.34
Jian Liu310.70
Chen Wang410.68
Yingying Chen52495193.14
Nitesh Saxena6120482.45