Applying Biometric Principles to Avatar Recognition

Abstract

Abstract. Domestic and industrial robots, intelligent software agents, and virtual world avatars are quickly becoming a part of our society. Just like it is necessary to be able to accurately authenticate identity of human beings, it is becoming essential to be able to determine identities of the non-biological entities. This paper presents current state of the art in virtual reality security, focusing specifically on emerging methodologies for avatar authentication. It also makes a strong link between avatar recognition and current biometric research. Finally, future directions and potential applications for this high impact research field are discussed.

Technology Review on Multimodal Biometric Authentication

“…다중 생체인증의 선행 연구 생체인식 정보통합 방법의 처리범위 연구 [16] , 생리 및 행위적 특징 파악과 이상 행동을 식별하기 위한 측정 치의 개발 [17] , 인증 시 생체인식의 무효화 [18] …”

Pathways to identity: using visualization to aid law enforcement in identification tasks

“…For instance, links between biometric physical features and avatar recognition for identity authentication and enrichment are being explored [9]. There has been a focus on authorship attribution, for example, to determine if the content of multiple online social network identities belongs to a single author [10] or extracting identity features in tracing cybercrime [11].…”

Face recognition using statistical adapted local binary patterns.

“…Mostly, an avatar would bear resemblance to its real life owner. There is a high demand for an affordable, fast, reliable means to authenticate avatars (Gavrilova & Yampolskiy, 2010). Toward the establishment of this goal, Yampolskiy and Gavrilova presented the concept of Artimetric.…”

“…Toward the establishment of this goal, Yampolskiy and Gavrilova presented the concept of Artimetric. Artimetrics is the study of the identification, classification and authentication of virtual entities robots and software agents (Gavrilova & Yampolskiy, 2010 …”

“…Some examples of these risks are (Gavrilova & Yampolskiy, 2010): 1-the risk of terrorism, some terrorism organizations such as Al-Qaeda uses Second Life virtual world for recruiting and communicating with their members and also for training their new members in an environment which is very similar to the real one. The authors mentioned that using a combination of traditional pattern recognition techniques and biometrics behavioral identifiers to analyze the appearance and the behavioral patterns of avatars could help in identifying these avatars.…”