Forget facial recognition technology or fingerprint computer identification as researchers have developed a computer security system using the dimensions of the heart as identifier.\u201cNo two people with identical hearts have ever been found,\u201d said the study\u2019s lead author Wenyao Xu, Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo in New York.<\/p>\n
And people\u2019s hearts do not change shape, unless they suffer from serious heart disease, he said.<\/p>\n
The system, which may eventually be used for smartphones and at airport screening barricades, is a safe and potentially more effective alternative to passwords and other biometric identifiers, the researchers said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would like to use it for every computer because everyone needs privacy,\u201d Xu said.<\/p>\n
\u201cLogging-in and logging-out are tedious,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
To make sure no one else steps in to run your computer, the system uses low-level Doppler radar to measure your heart, and then continually monitors your heart.<\/p>\n
The system needs about eight seconds to scan a heart the first time, and thereafter the monitor can continuously recognise that heart.<\/p>\n
The researchers are scheduled to present a paper describing the technology at the 23rd<\/sup> Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Communication (MobiCom) in Utah in October.<\/p>\n The signal strength of the system\u2019s radar \u201cis much less than Wi-Fi,\u201d and therefore does not pose any health threat, Xu said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are living in a Wi-Fi surrounding environment every day, and the new system is as safe as those Wi-Fi devices,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The system, which was three years in the making, uses the geometry of the heart, its shape and size, and how it moves to make an identification.<\/p>\n Heart-based biometrics systems have been used for almost a decade, primarily with electrodes measuring electrocardiogram signals, \u201cbut no one has done a non-contact remote device to characterise our hearts\u2019 geometry traits for identification,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The new system has several advantages over current biometric tools, like fingerprints and retinal scans, Xu said.<\/p>\n First, it is a passive, non-contact device, so users are not bothered with authenticating themselves whenever they log-in.<\/p>\n And second, it monitors users constantly. This means the computer will not operate if a different person is in front of it. Therefore, people do not have to remember to log-off when away from their computers.<\/p>\n The system could also be used for user identification on cell phones.<\/p>\n IANS<\/strong><\/p>\n Picture courtesy: Alamy Image<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Forget facial recognition technology or fingerprint computer identification as researchers have developed a computer security system using the dimensions of the heart as identifier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,29,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5000,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions\/5000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}