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10 June 2024 Human-based gait authentication using multimodal sensors at the tactical edge device: smartphone
Shageenth Sandrakumar, Simon Khan
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Abstract
The Department of Defense (DoD) including the US Air force have been seeing increased physical security risks, such as gate runners, active shooter situations, and other use cases (such as Drone ISR, Rapid Deployment, Force Protection, and Security Force), requiring increased coordination and data cooperation. Additionally, technology and operational environments are getting more complex, interconnected and diverse. Recently a team of developers within the US Air Force developed a plug-in, which analyzes sensor data from tactical edge device’s (e.g., cell phone) onboard accelerometer and gyroscope to determine the movement of a person when they walk. The plug-in uses machine learning (ML) algorithms to create a model of that person’s gait, and then sends pertinent data through the associated human gait model to authenticate a user. The novelty of our effort lies into enhancing this human gait authentication by using different features extracted from spectral information of the accelerometer and gyroscope signals from the smartphone using a public human activity recognition dataset (WISDM) as a proof of concept, marking a previously unexplored approach. By leveraging spectral data, we seek to enhance the accuracy and robustness of authentication systems in military contexts. After the feature extraction is performed, Kernal Discriminant Analysis (KDA) is utilized to reduce the dimensions of the spectral features to 50; after including the non-spectral features, our total number of final features becomes 65. After adding the total features, we perform feature-level fusion utilizing ML algorithms and the performance shows promising for authentication utilizing 51 users. The SVM-rbf classifiers achieved a mean Equal Error Rate (EER) and mean Accuracy (ACC) of 2% and 97.3% , while the GBM classifiers achieved a mean EER and ACC of 0.4% and 99.1%, and the CNN classifiers achieved a mean EER and ACC of 10% and 90.4% respectively.
Conference Presentation
(2024) Published by SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Shageenth Sandrakumar and Simon Khan "Human-based gait authentication using multimodal sensors at the tactical edge device: smartphone", Proc. SPIE 13036, Big Data VI: Learning, Analytics, and Applications, 1303608 (10 June 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3013442
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KEYWORDS
Data modeling

Windows

Feature extraction

Accelerometers

Gyroscopes

Sensors

Machine learning

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