Quad Swipe Pattern: A New Point-of-Entry Security Measure for Smartphone Users

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a new point-of-entry security measure for smartphone users. We devise a concept, the “Quad Swipe Pattern”, which includes four swipes from a user in four directions and utilizes the user’s swipe behavior for authentication. The Quad Swipe Pattern overcomes several shortcomings present in current point-of-entry security measures. We performed several experiments to demonstrate the effectiveness of the Quad Swipe Pattern in smartphone user authentication. We evaluated the Quad Swipe Pattern using five machine learning classifiers, three datasets of different sizes, and five different fingers. In addition, we studied how fusion of information from multiple fingers and multiple classifiers can improve the performance of Quad Swipe Pattern. All of our experimental results show significant promise of the Quad Swipe Pattern as a new point-of-entry security measure for smartphones. With a Neural Network model, the Quad Swipe Pattern achieves the Accuracy of 99.7%, False Acceptance Rate of 0.4%, and False Rejection Rate of 0%. With Support Vector Machine, the Quad Swipe Pattern achieves the Accuracy of 99.5%, False Acceptance Rate of 0.4%, and False Rejection Rate of 1.7%. With fusion of two best fingers, the Quad Swipe Pattern demonstrates an excellent performance of a zero Equal Error Rate.

Keywords

• Biometrics
• authentication
• smartphone security
• touchscreen
• swipe gesture