<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Behavioural biometrics provides an extra layer of security for user authentication mechanisms. Among behavioural biometrics, mouse dynamics provides a non-intrusive layer of security. In this paper we propose a novel convolutional neural network for extracting the features from the time series of users’ mouse movements. The effect of two preprocessing methods on the performance of the proposed architecture were evaluated. Different training types of the model, namely transfer learning and training from scratch, were investigated. Results for both authentication and identification systems are reported. The Balabit public data set was used for performance evaluation, however for transfer learning we used the DFL data set. Comprehensive experimental evaluations suggest that our model performed better than other deep learning models. In addition, transfer learning contributed to the better performance of both identification and authentication systems.</p></abstract>

Behavioural biometrics provides an extra layer of security for user authentication mechanisms. Among behavioural biometrics, mouse dynamics provides a non-intrusive layer of security. In this paper we propose a novel convolutional neural network for extracting the features from the time series of users’ mouse movements. The effect of two preprocessing methods on the performance of the proposed architecture were evaluated. Different training types of the model, namely transfer learning and training from scratch, were investigated. Results for both authentication and identification systems are reported. The Balabit public data set was used for performance evaluation, however for transfer learning we used the DFL data set. Comprehensive experimental evaluations suggest that our model performed better than other deep learning models. In addition, transfer learning contributed to the better performance of both identification and authentication systems.

Mouse dynamics based user recognition using deep learning

Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Informatica

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Behavioural biometrics provides an extra layer of security for user authentication mechanisms. Among behavioural biometrics, mouse dynamics provides a...

Mouse dynamics based user recognition using deep learning

Published Online: Jul 16, 2020

Page range: 39 - 50

Received: Jan 25, 2020

Accepted: Feb 16, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausi-2020-0003

Keywords
behavioural biometrics, mouse dynamics, deep learning, convolutional neural networks

© 2020 Margit Antal et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Mouse dynamics based user recognition using deep learning

Published Online: Jul 16, 2020

Page range: 39 - 50

Received: Jan 25, 2020

Accepted: Feb 16, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausi-2020-0003

Keywordsbehavioural biometrics, mouse dynamics, deep learning, convolutional neural networks

© 2020 Margit Antal et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
behavioural biometrics, mouse dynamics, deep learning, convolutional neural networks