News coverage of SkullConduct
Several major news sites covered SkullConduct – our joint work with the University of Stuttgart and Saarland University to appear at CHI’16:
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 | Stefan Schneegass; Youssef Oualil; Andreas Bulling SkullConduct: Biometric User Identification on Eyewear Computers Using Bone Conduction Through the Skull Inproceedings Proc. of the 34th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 1379-1384, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-4503-3362-7. @inproceedings{schneegass16_chi, title = {SkullConduct: Biometric User Identification on Eyewear Computers Using Bone Conduction Through the Skull}, author = {Stefan Schneegass and Youssef Oualil and Andreas Bulling}, url = {//perceptual.mpi-inf.mpg.de/files/2016/01/schneegass16_chi.pdf //www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4BCnsQmo6c //www.newscientist.com/article/2085430-the-buzz-of-your-skull-can-be-used-to-tell-exactly-who-you-are/ //www.golem.de/news/skullconduct-der-schaedel-meldet-den-nutzer-an-der-datenbrille-an-1605-120892.html //gizmodo.com/youll-never-forget-your-password-when-its-the-sound-you-1772327137 //www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/04/22/could-skull-echos-and-brainprints-replace-the-password/ //www.computerwelt.at/news/technologie-strategie/security/detail/artikel/115454-entsperrung-durch-schaedelknochen-loest-passwoerter-ab/ //www.uni-saarland.de/nc/aktuelles/artikel/nr/14597.html}, doi = {10.1145/2858036.2858152}, isbn = {978-1-4503-3362-7}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-05-07}, booktitle = {Proc. of the 34th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)}, pages = {1379-1384}, abstract = {Secure user identification is important for the increasing number of eyewear computers but limited input capabilities pose significant usability challenges for established knowledge-based schemes, such as a passwords or PINs. We present SkullConduct, a biometric system that uses bone conduction of sound through the user's skull as well as a microphone readily integrated into many of these devices, such as Google Glass. At the core of SkullConduct is a method to analyze the characteristic frequency response created by the user's skull using a combination of Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) features as well as a computationally light-weight 1NN classifier. We report on a controlled experiment with 10 participants that shows that this frequency response is person-specific and stable - even when taking off and putting on the device multiple times - and thus serves as a robust biometric. We show that our method can identify users with 97.0% accuracy and authenticate them with an equal error rate of 6.9%, thereby bringing biometric user identification to eyewear computers equipped with bone conduction technology.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } Secure user identification is important for the increasing number of eyewear computers but limited input capabilities pose significant usability challenges for established knowledge-based schemes, such as a passwords or PINs. We present SkullConduct, a biometric system that uses bone conduction of sound through the user's skull as well as a microphone readily integrated into many of these devices, such as Google Glass. At the core of SkullConduct is a method to analyze the characteristic frequency response created by the user's skull using a combination of Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) features as well as a computationally light-weight 1NN classifier. We report on a controlled experiment with 10 participants that shows that this frequency response is person-specific and stable - even when taking off and putting on the device multiple times - and thus serves as a robust biometric. We show that our method can identify users with 97.0% accuracy and authenticate them with an equal error rate of 6.9%, thereby bringing biometric user identification to eyewear computers equipped with bone conduction technology.
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