{"id":1210,"date":"2012-03-06T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/innovation\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2021-05-13T00:09:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T00:09:55","slug":"poster-real-time-continuous-iris-recognition-for-authentication-using-an-eye-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/innovation\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":"Poster: Real-Time Continuous Iris Recognition for Authentication Using an Eye Tracker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Authors: <\/strong>Kenrick Mock, Bogdan Hoanca, Justin Weaver, Mikal Milton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><br>The majority of today\u2019s authentication systems, including password and fingerprint scanners, are based on one-time, static authentication methods. A continuous, real-time authentication system opens up the possibility for greater security, but such a system must be unobtrusive and secure. In this work we studied whether a commercial eye tracker can be used for unobtrusive, continuous, real-time user authentication via iris recognition. In a user study, all 37 participants could be authenticated with 11% equal error rate (EER). For 14 of the 37 users, iris occlusion was sufficiently small to authenticate with 9% EER. When classified using a k-nearest neighbors algorithm and only the right iris, the same data set allowed 100% accuracy for k = 3. Although these error rates are too high for standalone use, iris recognition via an eye tracker might enable real-time continuous authentication when combined with other more reliable authentication means (e.g., a password). As eye trackers become widely available their capabilities for multiple factor, continuous authentication will become compelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/innovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2012-03-Poster-Real-Time-Continuous-Iris-Recognition-for-Authentication-Using-an-Eye-Tracker.pdf\">2012-03-Poster-Real-Time-Continuous-Iris-Recognition-for-Authentication-Using-an-Eye-Tracker<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/innovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2012-03-Poster-Real-Time-Continuous-Iris-Recognition-for-Authentication-Using-an-Eye-Tracker.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of today\u2019s authentication systems, including password and fingerprint scanners, are based on one-time, static authentication methods. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[278,276,277,110],"discipline":[298],"academic-year":[306],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-authentication","tag-eye-tracking","tag-iris-recognition","tag-security","discipline-computer-science-engineering","academic_year-306"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/innovation\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/innovation\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/innovation\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/innovation\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/innovation\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/innovation\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/innovation\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/innovation\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/innovation\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/innovation\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/innovation\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"discipline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/innovation\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdiscipline&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"academic_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/innovation\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Facademic-year&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}