Android Projects 2016

IEEE 2016-A SHOULDER SURFING RESISTANT GRAPHICAL AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM

ABSTRACT: Authentication based on passwords is used largely in applications for computer security and privacy. However, human actions such as choosing bad passwords and inputting passwords in an insecure way are regarded as”the weakest link” in the authentication chain. Rather than arbitrary alphanumeric strings, users tend to choose passwords either short or meaningful for easy memorization. With web applications and mobile apps piling up, people can access these applications anytime and anywhere with various devices. This evolution brings great convenience but also increases the  probability of exposing passwords to shoulder surfing attacks. Attackers can observe directly or use external recording devices to collect users’ credentials. To overcome this problem, we proposed a novel authentication system PassMatrix, based on graphical passwords to resist shoulder surfing attacks. With a one-time valid login indicator and circulative horizontal and vertical bars covering the entire scope of pass-images, PassMatrix offers no hint for attackers to figure out or narrow down the password even they conduct multiple camera-based attacks. We also implemented a PassMatrix prototype on Android and carried out real user experiments to evaluate its memorability and usability. From the experimental result, the proposed system achieves better resistance to shoulder surfing attacks while maintaining usability. 

IEEE 2016- AUTHENTICATION OF SMARTPHONE USERS USING BEHAVIORAL BIOMETRICS

ABSTRACT: Smartphones and tablets have become ubiquitous in our daily lives. Smartphones, in particular, have become more than personal assistants. These devices have provided new avenues for consumers to play, work, and socialize whenever and wherever they want. Smartphones are small in size, so they are easy to handle and to stow and carry in users’ pockets or purses. However, mobile devices are also susceptible to various problems. One of the greatest concerns is the possibility of breach in security and privacy if the device is seized by an outside party. It is possible that threats can come from friends as well as strangers. Due to the size of smart devices, they can be easily lost and may expose details of users’ private lives. In addition, this might enable pervasive observation or imitation of one’s movements and activities, such as sending messages to contacts, accessing private communication, shopping with a credit card, and relaying information about where one has been. This paper highlights the potential risks that occur when smartphones are stolen or seized, discusses the concept of continuous authentication, and analyzes current approaches and mechanisms of behavioral biometrics with respect to methodology, associated datasets and evaluation approaches.

 IEEE 2016- EPLQ: EFFICIENT PRIVACY-PRESERVING LOCATION-BASED QUERY OVER OUTSOURCED ENCRYPTED DATA

ABSTRACT: With the pervasiveness of smart phones, location based services (LBS) have received considerable attention and become more popular and vital recently. However, the use of LBS also poses a potential threat to user’s location privacy. In this paper, aiming at spatial range query, a popular LBS providing information about points of interest (POIs) within a given distance, we present an efficient and privacy-preserving location-based query solution, called EPLQ. Specifically, to achieve privacy preserving spatial range query, we propose the first predicate-only encryption scheme for inner product range (IPRE), which can be used to detect whether a position is within a given circular area in a privacy-preserving way. To reduce query latency, we further design a privacy-preserving tree index structure in EPLQ. Detailed security analysis confirms the security properties of EPLQ. In addition, extensive experiments are conducted, and the results demonstrate that EPLQ is very efficient in privacy preserving spatial range query over outsourced encrypted data. In particular, for a mobile LBS user using an Android phone, around 0.9 s is needed to generate a query, and it also only requires a commodity workstation, which plays the role of the cloud in our experiments, a few seconds to search POIs.

IEEE 2016- HMOG: NEW BEHAVIORAL BIOMETRIC FEATURES FOR CONTINUOUS AUTHENTICATION OF SMARTPHONE USERS

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We introduce hand movement, orientation, and grasp (HMOG), a set of behavioral features to continuously authenticate smartphone users. HMOG features unobtrusively capture subtle micro-movement and orientation dynamics resulting from how a user grasps, holds, and taps on the smartphone. We evaluated authentication and biometric key generation (BKG) performance of HMOG features on data collected from 100 subjects typing on a virtual keyboard. Data were collected under two conditions: 1) sitting and 2) walking. We achieved authentication equal error rates (EERs) as low as 7.16% (walking) and 10.05% (sitting) when we combined HMOG, tap, and keystroke features. We performed experiments to investigate why HMOG features perform well during walking. Our results suggest that this is due to the ability of HMOG features to capture distinctive body movements caused by walking, in addition to the hand movement dynamics from taps. With BKG, we achieved the EERs of 15.1% using HMOG combined with taps. In comparison, BKG using tap, key hold, and swipe features had EERs between 25.7% and 34.2%. We also analyzed the energy consumption of HMOG feature extraction and computation. Our analysis shows that HMOG features extracted at a 16-Hz sensor sampling rate incurred a minor overhead of 7.9% without sacrificing authentication accuracy. Two points distinguish our work from current literature: 1) we present the results of a comprehensive evaluation of three types of features (HMOG, keystroke, and tap) and their combinations under the same experimental conditions and 2) we analyze the features from three perspectives (authentication, BKG, and energy consumption on smartphones).

IEEE 2016- MOBILE CLOUD SUPPORT FOR SEMANTIC-ENRICHED SPEECH RECOGNITION IN SOCIAL CARE

ABSTRACT: Nowadays, most users carry high computing power mobile devices where speech recognition is certainly one of the main technologies available in every modern smartphone, although battery draining and application performance (resource shortage) have a big impact on the experienced quality. Shifting applications and services to the cloud may help to improve mobile user satisfaction as demonstrated by several ongoing efforts in the mobile cloud area. However, the quality of speech recognition is still not sufficient in many complex cases to replace the common hand written text, especially when prompt reaction to short-term provisioning requests is required. To address the new scenario, this paper proposes a mobile cloud infrastructure to support the extraction of semantics information from speech recognition in the Social Care domain, where carers have to speak about their patients conditions in order to have reliable notes used afterward to plan the best support. We present not only an architecture proposal, but also a real prototype that we have deployed and thoroughly assessed with different queries, accents, and in presence of load peaks, in our experimental mobile cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) testbed based on Cloud Foundry.

IEEE 2016 -PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF TOUCH-INTERACTION BEHAVIOR FOR ACTIVE SMARTPHONE AUTHENTICATION

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The increasing use of touchscreen smartphones to access sensitive and privacy data has given rise to the need of secure and usable authentication technique. Smartphone users have their own unique behavioral characteristics when performing  touch operations. These personal characteristics are reflected on different rhythm, strength, and angle preferences of touch interaction behavior. This paper investigates the reliability and applicability on the usage of users’ touch-interaction behavior for active authentication on smartphones. For each common type of touch operations, both static and dynamic features are extracted and analyzed for fine-grained characterization of users’ touch behavior. Classification techniques (nearest neighbor, neural network, support vector machine, and random forest) are applied to the feature space for performing the task of active authentication. Analyses are conducted using data from around 134 900 touch operations of 71 participants in real-world scenarios, and the authentication performance is evaluated across various types of touch operations, varying operation lengths, different application tasks, and different application scenarios. The extensive experimental results are included to show that touch-interaction behavior exhibits sufficient discriminability and stability among smartphone users for active authentication, and achieves equal-error rates between 1.72% and 9.01% for different types of touch operations with the operation length of 11; the authentication accuracies improve when having long observation or small timespan between the training and testing phases, and express more reliably and stably in a specific task than in the free task. We also discuss a number of avenues for additional research that we believe are necessary to advance the state-of-the-art in this area.

IEEE 2016- SERVICE RATING PREDICTION BY EXPLORING SOCIAL MOBILE USERS’ GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS

ABSTRACT: Recently, advances in intelligent mobile device and positioning techniques have fundamentally enhanced social networks, which allow users to share their experiences, reviews, ratings, photos, check-ins, etc. The geographical information located by smart phone bridges the gap between physical and digital worlds. Location data functions as the connection between user’s physical behaviors and virtual social networks structured by the smart phone or web services. We refer to these social networks involving geographical information as location-based social networks (LBSNs). Such information brings opportunities and challenges for recommender systems to solve the cold start, sparsity problem of datasets and rating prediction. In this paper, we make full use of the mobile users’ location sensitive characteristics to carry out rating predication. We mine: the relevance between user’s ratings and user-item geographical location distances, called as user-item geographical connection, the relevance between users’ rating differences and user-user geographical location distances, called as user-user geographical connection. It is discovered that humans’ rating behaviors are affected by geographical location significantly. Moreover, three factors: user-item geographical connection, user-user geographical connection, and interpersonal interest similarity, are fused into a unified rating prediction model. We conduct a series of experiments on a real social rating network dataset Yelp. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms existing models. Finally in our project we shows that the review from the peoples from different areas will collected and perfect rating will be calculated and saved for the people as fair recommendation as possible.

IEEE 2016- STAMP: ENABLING PRIVACY-PRESERVING LOCATION PROOFS FOR MOBILE USERS

ABSTRACT:Location-based services are quickly becoming immensely popular. In addition to services based on users' current location, many potential services rely on users' location history, or their spatial-temporal provenance. Malicious users may lie about their spatial-temporal provenance without a carefully designed security system for users to prove their past locations. In this paper, we present the Spatial-Temporal provenance Assurance with Mutual Proofs (STAMP) scheme. STAMP is designed for ad-hoc mobile users generating location proofs for each other in a distributed setting. However, it can easily accommodate trusted mobile users and wireless access points. STAMP ensures the integrity and non-transferability of the location proofs and protects users' privacy. A semi-trusted Certification Authority is used to distribute cryptographic keys as well as guard users against collusion by a light-weight entropy-based trust evaluation approach. Our prototype implementation on the Android platform shows that STAMP is low-cost in terms of computational and storage resources. Extensive simulation experiments show that our entropy-based trust model is able to achieve high collusion detection accuracy.

IEEE 2016- KISS: KNOWING CAMERA PROTOTYPE SYSTEM FOR RECOGNIZING AND ANNOTATING PLACES-OF-INTEREST

Abstract- This paper presents a project called KnowIng camera prototype SyStem (KISS) for real-time places-of-interest (POI) recognition and annotation for smartphone photos, with the availability of online geotagged images for POIs as our knowledge base. We propose a “Spatial+Visual” (S+V) framework which consists of a probabilistic field-of-view (pFOV) model in the spatial phase andsparse coding similarity metric in the visual phase to recognize phone-captured POIs. Moreover, we put forward an offline Collaborative Salient Area (COSTAR) mining algorithm to detect common visual features (called Costars) among the noisy photos geotagged on each POI, thus to clean the geotagged image database. The mining result can be utilized to annotate the region-of-interest on the query image during the online query processing. Besides, this mining procedure also improves the efficiency and accuracy of the S+V framework. Furthermore, we extend the pFOV model into a Bayesian FOV(bFOV) model which improves the spatial recognition accuracy by more than 30 percent and also further alleviates visual computation. From a bayesian point of view, the likelihood of a certain POI being captured by phones is a prior probability in pFOV model which is represented as a posterior probability in bFOV model.Our experiments in the real-world and Oxford 5K datasets show promising recognition results. In order to provide a fine-grained annotation ground truth, we labeled a new dataset based on Oxford 5K and make it public  available on the web. Our COSTAR mining techniqueoutperforms state-of-the-art approach on both dataset.