On the Use of Mobile Phones and Biometrics for Accessing Restricted Web Services

In this study, an application that allows a mobile phone to be used as a biometric-capture device is shown. The main contribution of our proposal is that this capture, and later recognition, can be performed during a standard web session, using the same architecture that is used in a personal comput...

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Published inIEEE transactions on systems, man and cybernetics. Part C, Applications and reviews Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 213 - 222
Main Authors Vivaracho-Pascual, C., Pascual-Gaspar, J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New-York, NY IEEE 01.03.2012
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Subjects
Applied sciences
Biometric recognition
Biometrics (access control)
Browsers
Computer science; control theory; systems
Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface
Exact sciences and technology
Face
Mobile communication
Mobile handsets
mobile phones
Performance evaluation
Proposals
Software
web-based access
Personal digital assistant
Biometrics
Mobile phone
JAVA language
Personal computer
mobile phones
Scripting language
Transmission protocol
Web service
Distributed system
Information browsing
Mobile code
web-based access
Object oriented
World wide web
Biometric recognition
Internet
Mobile computing
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Summary:In this study, an application that allows a mobile phone to be used as a biometric-capture device is shown. The main contribution of our proposal is that this capture, and later recognition, can be performed during a standard web session, using the same architecture that is used in a personal computer (PC), thus allowing a multiplatform (PC, personal digital assistant (PDA), mobile phone, etc.) biometric web access. The review, which is from both an academic and commercial point of view, of the biometry and mobile device state of the art shows that in other related works, the biometric capture and recognition is either performed locally in the mobile or remotely but using special communication protocols and/or connection ports with the server. The second main contribution of this study is an in-depth analysis of the present mobile web-browser limitations; thus, it is concluded that, in general, it is impossible to use the same technologies that can be used to capture biometrics in PC platforms (i.e., Applet Java, ActiveX Control, JavaScript, or Flash); therefore, new solutions, as shown here, are needed.
ISSN:1094-6977
1558-2442
DOI:10.1109/TSMCC.2011.2107739