Poster: Your HeartWon't Lie: PPG-based continuous authentication on wrist-worn wearable devices

Tianming Zhao, Yan Wang, Jian Liu, Yingying Chen

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Abstract

This paper presents a photoplethysmography (PPG)-based continuous user authentication (CA) system, which especially leverages the PPG sensors in wrist-worn wearable devices to identify users. We explore the uniqueness of the human cardiac system captured by the PPG sensing technology. Existing CA systems require either the dedicated sensing hardware or specific gestures, whereas our system does not require any users' interactions but only the wearable device, which has already been pervasively equipped with PPG sensors. Notably, we design a robust motion artifacts (MA) removal method to mitigate the impact of MA from wrist movements. Additionally, we explore the characteristic fiducial features from PPG measurements to efficiently distinguish the human cardiac system. Furthermore, we develop a cardiac-based classifier for user identification using the Gradient Boosting Tree (GBT). Experiments with the prototype of the wrist-worn PPG sensing platform and 10 participants in different scenarios demonstrate that our system can effectively remove MA and achieve a high average authentication success rate over 90%.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMobiCom 2018 - Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages783-785
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781450359030
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 15 2018
Event24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom 2018 - New Delhi, India
Duration: Oct 29 2018Nov 2 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Other

Other24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom 2018
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityNew Delhi
Period10/29/1811/2/18

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Software

Keywords

  • Continuous Authentication
  • Photoplethysmography (PPG)
  • Wearable Devices

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