Gaussian mixture modeling of keystroke patterns for biometric applications

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 816-826

  Hosseinzadeh, Danoush ^a,b   Krishnan, Sridhar ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biometric; Digital signature; Down down keystroke latency (DDKL); Gaussian mixture model (GMM); Key hold down time (KD); Keystroke protocol; Keystroke verification; Leave one out method (LOOM); Typing pattern; Up up keystroke latency (UUKL)

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; AUTHENTICATION; BIOMETRICS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KETONES; LOOMS; MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES; MIXTURES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; TRELLIS CODES;

BIOMETRIC; DIGITAL SIGNATURE; DOWN-DOWN KEYSTROKE LATENCY (DDKL); GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (GMM); KEY HOLD-DOWN TIME (KD); KEYSTROKE PROTOCOL; KEYSTROKE VERIFICATION; LEAVE-ONE-OUT METHOD (LOOM); TYPING PATTERN; UP-UP KEYSTROKE LATENCY (UUKL);

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 56049086396     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2008.2001696     Document Type: Article

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