Multimodal Biometric Person Authentication : A Review

Sahoo, Soyuj Kumar; Choubisa, Tarun; Prasanna, S. R. Mahadeva

doi:10.4103/0256-4602.93139

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“…The special purpose input devices may limit the scope of CBA implementation in a wider Internet context. The CBA approaches have been reported with algorithm challenges like False Accept Rate (FAR), False Reject Rate (FRR), Equal Error Rate (ERR), Failure to Enrol Rate (FER) and Failure to Capture Rate (FCR) [15].…”

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Evaluating security and usability of profile based challenge questions authentication in online examinations

Ullah

Xiao

Barker

et al. 2014

J Internet Serv Appl

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Student authentication in online learning environments is an increasingly challenging issue due to the inherent absence of physical interaction with online users and potential security threats to online examinations. This study is part of ongoing research on student authentication in online examinations evaluating the potential benefits of using challenge questions. The authors developed a Profile Based Authentication Framework (PBAF), which utilises challenge questions for students' authentication in online examinations. This paper examines the findings of an empirical study in which 23 participants used the PBAF including an abuse case security analysis of the PBAF approach. The overall usability analysis suggests that the PBAF is efficient, effective and usable. However, specific questions need replacement with suitable alternatives due to usability challenges. The results of the current research study suggest that memorability, clarity of questions, syntactic variation and question relevance can cause usability issues leading to authentication failure. A configurable traffic light system was designed and implemented to improve the usability of challenge questions. The security analysis indicates that the PBAF is resistant to informed guessing in general, however, specific questions were identified with security issues. The security analysis identifies challenge questions with potential risks of informed guessing by friends and colleagues. The study was performed with a small number of participants in a simulation online course and the results need to be verified in a real educational context on a larger sample size.

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Section: Background and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating security and usability of profile based challenge questions authentication in online examinations

Ullah

Xiao

Barker

et al. 2014

J Internet Serv Appl

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“…The same issues were reported in other biometric features, including face recognition. In a recent study, Sahoo and Choubisa [35] identified that the video recording feature may enhance security, but it will require post-assessment monitoring of exam sessions for all students, which incurs additional resources and demands extra effort [31]. This discussion implies that biometrics is more reliable in terms of identification; however, they are unreasonably intrusive, expensive and may cause difficulties in wider implementation where students are situated in dispersed geographical locations.…”

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A Dynamic Profile Questions Approach to Mitigate Impersonation in Online Examinations

2018

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Online examinations are an integral component of many online learning environments, which face many security challenges. Collusion is seen as a major security threat to such examinations, when a student invites a third party to impersonate or abet in a test. This work aims to strengthen the authentication of students via the use of dynamic profile questions. The study reported in this paper involved 31 online participants from five countries over a five-week period. The results of usability and security analysis are reported. The dynamic profile questions were more usable than both the text-based and image-based questions (p < 0.01). An impersonation abuse scenario was simulated using email and mobile phone. The impersonation attack via email was not successful, however, students were able to share answers to dynamic profile questions with a third party impersonator in real time, which resulted in 93% correct answers. The sharing of information via phone took place in real time during Abrar Ullah ( ) Llandaff Campus, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, CF5 2YB, UK e-mail: aaaullah@cardiffmet.ac.uk Hannan Xiao · Trevor Barker College Lane Campus, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK e-mail: h.xiao@herts.ac.ukTrevor Barker e-mail: t.1.barker@herts.ac.uk an online test and the response time of an impersonator was significantly different (p < 0.01) than a student. The study also revealed that a response time factor may be implemented to identify and report impersonation attacks.

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“…It is unlikely that a multimodal system, employing several distinct biometric technologies (or a single biometric acquired with different sensors) will suffer from such limitations. The interested reader is pointed to Sahoo et al [6] for detailed tradeoffs of response time, accuracy, and costs between integration modes.…”

Section: Adaptive and Multimodal Biometricsmentioning

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Biometrics and Consumer Electronics: A Brave New World or the Road to Dystopia? [Soapbox]

Corcoran¹

2013

IEEE Consumer Electron. Mag.

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Multimodal Biometric Person Authentication : A Review

Cited by 68 publications

References 87 publications

Evaluating security and usability of profile based challenge questions authentication in online examinations

Evaluating security and usability of profile based challenge questions authentication in online examinations

A Dynamic Profile Questions Approach to Mitigate Impersonation in Online Examinations

Biometrics and Consumer Electronics: A Brave New World or the Road to Dystopia? [Soapbox]

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