SilentSense: silent user identification via touch and movement behavioral biometrics

  • Authors:
  • Cheng Bo;Lan Zhang;Xiang-Yang Li;Qiuyuan Huang;Yu Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA;Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA;University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA;University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 19th annual international conference on Mobile computing & networking
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this work, we present SilentSense, a framework to authenticate users silently and transparently by exploiting the user touch behavior biometrics and leveraging the integrated sensors to capture the micro-movement of the device caused by user's screen-touch actions. By tracking the fine-detailed touch actions of the user, we build a "touch-based biometrics" model of the owner by extracting some principle features, and then verify whether the current user is the owner or guest/attacker. When using the smartphone, the unique operating pattern of the user is detected and learnt by collecting the sensor data and touch events silently. When users are mobile, the micro-movement of mobile devices caused by touch is suppressed by that due to the large scale user-movement which will render the touch-based biometrics ineffective. To address this, we integrate a movement-based biometrics for each user with previous touch-based biometrics. We conduct extensive evaluations of our approaches on the Android smartphone, we show that the user identification accuracy is over 99%.