Incorporating Touch Biometrics to Mobile One-Time Passwords: Exploration of Digits

Abstract

This work evaluates the advantages and potential of incorporating touch biometrics to mobile one-time passwords (OTP). The new e-BioDigit database, which comprises online handwritten numerical digits from 0 to 9, has been acquired using the finger touch as input to a mobile device. This database is used in the experiments reported in this work and it is publicly available to the research community. An analysis of the OTP scenario using handwritten digits is carried out regarding which are the most discriminative handwritten digits and how robust the system is when increasing the number of them in the user password. Additionally, the best features for each handwritten numerical digit are studied in order to enhance our proposed biometric system. Our proposed approach achieves remarkable results with EERs ca. 5.0% when using skilled forgeries, outperforming other traditional biometric verification traits such as the handwritten signature or graphical passwords on similar mobile scenarios.