Investigating Cognitive Rhythms as a New Modality for Continuous Authentication

Abstract

Research performed and results achieved under the DARPA Active Authentication award "Investigating Cognitive Rhythms as a New Modality for Continuous Authentication." The research under this project focused on five main tasks: (1) defining and extracting cognitive rhythms (atomic, pausality, linguistic, and revision features) from users' text production data; (2) determining the availability and discriminability of cognitive rhythm features for continuous authentication; (3) determining continuous authentication accuracies of cognitive rhythm features over a large population of users; (4) investigating the impact of non-zero effort forgery attacks against continuous authentication; and (5) prediction of a users' cognitive load levels and demographic information.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA595913

Entities

People

  • Kiran S. Balagani

Organizations

  • New York Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Authentication
  • Availability
  • Biometric Security
  • Detection
  • Identification
  • Identification Systems
  • Language
  • Machine Learning
  • New York
  • Production
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Virtual Machines

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.