I-Corps: Cardiac Password - The Next Generation Biometric Authentication

这个I-Corps项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是一个新的身份验证解决方案，可以以非接触、非自愿和安全的方式识别用户。连续认证和非接触操作是认证系统的重要价值。然而，许多现有的身份验证方法不提供这些值。申报产品是一种基于智能雷达技术的非接触式感知心脏波形的新型连续认证系统。与现有的认证系统相比，该技术提高了许多系统和设施的便利性和安全性。该项目可以使许多寻求更高级别保护以防止网络攻击的机构或人员受益。除了对更安全的世界的好处外，该项目中将研究的基于雷达的运动传感技术还可以使其他学科受益，例如健康/老年人护理（例如睡眠监测和跌倒检测），灾难搜索和救援（例如寻找埋在地震废墟下的受害者并跟踪救援人员），以及智能生活应用（一个例子是远程手势控制电器）。这个I-Corps项目旨在将身份验证解决方案提升到更安全、更方便的水平。心脏密码，基于人体心脏的心脏运动波形，将作为一种新的非接触式生物识别，以验证用户进入计算机和设施。该技术是一种高灵敏度和高精度的运动传感器。这样的运动传感器可以嵌入在电子系统或设备中，诸如计算机、智能仪表或能量控制系统。它也可以安装在需要身份验证才能访问的房间/设施的入口处。运动传感器继续跟踪用户？的心跳波形，以保证系统/设备由同一授权用户使用，或房间/设施由同一授权人员占用。该技术的发展结合了电气工程，生物工程，计算机科学和网络安全的研究。它涉及多个研究领域，包括射频（RF）系统设计，生物信号处理，模式识别，生物识别和计算机安全。该项目的成果将提供一种基于人类心脏运动的不变和非自愿特征的安全、可信和非接触的连续认证方法。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is a new authentication solution that can identify users in a noncontact, non-volitional and secure way. Continuous authentication and noncontact operation are great values for an authentication system. However, many of the existing authentication methods do not provide those values. The proposed product is a new continuous authentication system by noncontact sensing cardiac waveform based on a smart radar technology. Compared with existing authentication systems, this technology improves the convenience and safeguard of many systems and facilities. This project could benefit many institutions or personnel that seek for a higher-level protection to prevent cyber attacks. Besides the benefits to a more secure world, the radar-based motion sensing technology to be investigated in this project could benefit other disciplines such as health/elderly care (examples include sleep monitoring and fall detection), disaster search and rescue (examples include finding victims buried under earthquake debris and tracking rescuers), and smart living applications (one example is remote gesture control of appliances). This I-Corps project aims to bring authentication solutions to a more secure and convenient level. Cardiac password, based on the human heart cardiac motion waveform, will work as a new noncontact biometric to authenticate users into computers and facilities. The technology is a high-sensitivity and high-accuracy motion sensor. Such a motion sensor can be embedded in an electronic system or device such as a computer, a smart meter, or an energy control system. It can also be installed at the entrance of a room/facility that requires authentication to access. The motion sensor continues to track the user?s heartbeat waveform to guarantee the system/device is used by the same authorized user or the room/facility is occupied by the same authorized person. The development of this technology combines researches in Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering, Computer Science, and Cyber Security. It involves multiple research areas including radio-frequency (RF) system design, bio-signal processing, pattern recognition, biometrics, and computer security. The result of this project will provide a secure, trustworthy, and noncontact continuous authentication approach based on invariant and non-volitional features of human cardiac motion.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.