Task-Driven Biometric Authentication of Users in a VR Environment

During my undergraduate career, I performed research in the Terascale All-sensing Research Studio (TARS) at Clarkson. One project that I worked on was performing biometric authentication of users in VR through tasks. By capturing the position of a user’s hand as they threw a ball in a virtual environment, we developed a “profile” for that user which could then be compared against future throws. With 14 users each recording 10 throws to create their profile, our system obtained 92.86% accuracy in identifying a person performing the task on a later date.

The paper from this research was accepted to the International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM) in 2019, held in Thessaloniki, Greece. I was able to attend the conference and present our research in the Best Paper section of the conference. More info is available on the TARS website at https://tars.clarkson.edu/.