Seeing is believing: Authenticating users with what they see and remember

Wayne Chiu, Kuo Hui Yeh*, Akihito Nakamura

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

3 Scopus citations

Abstract

Brainwaves, as external signals of a functioning brain, provide a possible glimpse into how we think and react. However, seen another way, we could reasonably expect that a given action or event could be linked back to its corresponding brainwave reaction. Recently, commercial products in the form of commercial brainwave headsets have flooded into the market, opening up the possibility of exploiting brainwaves for various purposes and making this more feasible. In this paper, we build an authentication system based on brainwave reactions to a chain of events. We use a commercially available brainwave headset to collect brainwave data of participants for use in the proposed authentication system. After the brainwave data collection process, we apply a machine learning-based approach to extract features from brainwaves to serve as authentication tokens in the system and to support the authentication system itself.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Security Practice and Experience - 14th International Conference, ISPEC 2018, Proceedings
EditorsHiroaki Kikuchi, Chunhua Su
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages391-403
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783319998060
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event14th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, ISPEC 2018 - Tokyo, Japan
Duration: 25 Sep 201827 Sep 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11125 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, ISPEC 2018
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityTokyo
Period25/09/1827/09/18

Keywords

  • Authentication
  • Brainwave
  • Machine learning
  • Wearable

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Seeing is believing: Authenticating users with what they see and remember'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this