Engineering Gesture-Based Authentication Systems

TL;DR

This paper evaluates various gesture recognition methods for their effectiveness and practicality in developing secure, real-world gesture-based authentication systems, highlighting the challenges and considerations involved.

Contribution

It provides an analysis of recognition approaches and discusses their suitability for practical, robust gesture-based authentication systems.

Findings

Different recognition approaches vary in accuracy and robustness.

Practical deployment of gesture recognition faces significant challenges.

Effective gesture-based authentication requires balancing security and usability.

Abstract

Gestures are a topic of increasing interest in authentication and successful implementation as a security layer requires reliable gesture recognition. So far much work focuses on new ways to recognize gestures, leaving discussion on the viability of recognition in an authentication scheme to the background. It is unclear how recognition should be deployed for practical and robust real-world authentication. In this article, we analyze the effectiveness of different approaches to recognizing gestures and the potential for use in secure gesture-based authentication systems.