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You are who you know: user authentication by face recognition

In this paper, a novel method of authentication based on user-performed identification of known and unknown faces is described. The target group of the method is the elderly users for which the use of traditional techniques, such as passwords, personal identification numbers (PIN), or biometrics is not without problems. The performance of this method and authentication by PIN has been compared ...

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Who Are You?

M any security mechanisms, including authorization, depend on the proper handling of identity, but it’s hard to get right. To understand why, we must examine, fundamentally, what identity is. One traditional answer is that an identity is a name. That’s unsatisfactory, for several reasons. First, a name points to an object—an entity—but is not itself that object. Second, authentication is needed...

Who Are You?

Most automatic recognition systems are focused on recognizing, given a single mug-shot of an individual, any new image of that individual. Most verification systems are designed to authenticate an identity provided by the user. However, the previous work rarely focus on the problem of detecting when a new individual, i.e. an unknown one, is present. The goal of the work presented in this paper ...