Free-text keystroke dynamics authentication for Arabic language

Alsultan, A., Warwick, K. and Wei, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9664-5748 (2016) Free-text keystroke dynamics authentication for Arabic language. IET Biometrics, 5 (3). pp. 164-169. ISSN 2047-4938 doi: 10.1049/iet-bmt.2015.0101

Abstract/Summary

This study introduces an approach for user authentication using free-text keystroke dynamics which incorporates text in Arabic language. The Arabic language has completely different characteristics to those of English. The approach followed in this study involves the use of the keyboard's key-layout. The method extracts timing features from specific key-pairs in the typed text. Decision trees were exploited to classify each of the users' data. In parallel for comparison, support vector machines were also used for classification in association with an ant colony optimisation feature selection technique. The results obtained from this study are encouraging as low false accept rates and false reject rates were achieved in the experimentation phase. This signifies that satisfactory overall system performance was achieved by using the typing attributes in the proposed approach, while typing Arabic text.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/69205
Identification Number/DOI	10.1049/iet-bmt.2015.0101
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Computer Science
Publisher	IET
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