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Learning Human Identity from Motion Patterns (arxiv.org)
2 points by Oatseller on Nov 13, 2015 | hide | past | pdf | 1 comment on HN

In plain words: Using motion data from 1500 volunteers' phones, a learning program studied how each person moves over time to check who is holding the device. Movement patterns carried clear identity clues, so they could serve as an extra check alongside passwords or fingerprints.

Abstract

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 have created a first-of-its-kind dataset of human movements, passively collected by 1500 volunteers using their smartphones daily over several months. We (1) compare several neural architectures for efficient learning of temporal multi-modal data representations, (2) propose an optimized shift-invariant dense convolutional mechanism (DCWRNN), and (3) incorporate the discriminatively-trained dynamic features in a probabilistic generative framework taking into account temporal characteristics. Our results demonstrate that human kinematics convey important information about user identity and can serve as a valuable component of multi-modal authentication systems.

Natalia Neverova, Christian Wolf, Griffin Lacey, Lex Fridman, Deepak Chandra, Brandon Barbello, Graham Taylor
arXiv:1511.03908 · cs.LG, cs.CV, cs.NE · submitted Nov 12, 2015 · updated Apr 21, 2016
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   8. Conclusion

    From a modeling perspective, this work has demon-
    strated that temporal architectures are particularly efficient
    for learning of dynamic features from a large corpus of
    noisy temporal signals, and that the learned representations
    can be further incorporated in a generative setting. With
    respect to the particular application, we have confirmed
    that natural human kinematics convey necessary informa-
    tion about person identity and therefore can be useful for
    user authentication on mobile devices. The obtained results
    look particularly promising, given the fact that the system is
    completely non-intrusive and non-cooperative,i.e. does not
    require any effort from the user’s side.

    Non-standard weak biometrics are particularly interest-
    ing for providing the context in, for example, face recog-
    nition or speaker verification scenarios. Further augmenta-
    tion with data extracted from keystroke and touch patterns,
    user location, connectivity and application statistics (ongo-
    ing work) may be a key to creating the first secure non-
    obtrusive mobile authentication framework