Personal mobile devices hold sensitive data and can be
used to access services with associated cost. For security
reasons, most mobile platforms hence implement automatic
device locking after a period of inactivity. Unlocking them
using approaches like PIN, password or an unlock pattern is
both problematic in terms of usability and potentially
insecure, as it is prone to the shoulder surfing attack: an
attacker watching the display during user authentication.
Therefore, face unlock - using biometric face information
for authentication – was developed as a more secure as
well as more usable personal device unlock. Unfortunately,
when using frontal face information only, authentication
can still be circumvented by a photo attack: presenting a
photo/video of the authorized person to the camera. We
propose a variant of face unlock which is harder to
circumvent by using all face information that is available
during a 180 degree pan shot around the user’s head. Based
on stereo vision, 2D and range images of the user’s head
are recorded and classified along with sensor data of the
device movement. We evaluate different classifiers for both
grayscale 2D and range images and present our current
results based on a new stereo vision face database.
@inproceedings{Findling_13_TowardsSecurePersonal, author = {Findling, Rainhard Dieter and Mayrhofer, Ren\'e}, title = {Towards Secure Personal Device Unlock using Stereo Camera Pan Shots}, booktitle = {Second International Workshop on Mobile Computing Platforms and Technologies ({MCPT 2013}) on the 14th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory ({EUROCAST 2013})}, year = {2013}, editor = {Moreno-D{\'i}az, Roberto and Pichler, Franz and Quesada-Arencibia, Alexis}, series = {LNCS}, pages = {417--424}, address = {Las Palmas, Spain}, month = feb, publisher = {Springer}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-53862-9_53}, url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-53862-9_53} }