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Table 1 Overview of studies on swipe gesture recognition on mobile devices

From: Evaluation of stability of swipe gesture authentication across usage scenarios of mobile device

Publication

Year

Number of subjects

Data collection mode

Scenarios

Feature extraction

Classification

EER

Frank et al. [6]

2013

41

Constrained data collection

Not specified

Timestamp, X, Y, phone orientation

SVM RBF kernel and k-NN

0%-Intra-session and 2–3%-inter-session %

Bo et al. [7]

2014

100

Constrained data collection

Static (no body movement) and walking

Timestamp, X, Y, finger pressure

SVM

Static scenario (FAR -Tap 22, Fling-9, Scroll- 23), walking scenario accuracy 100% after 12 steps of walking

Saravanan et al. [8]

2014

20

Constrained

Not specified

Timestamp, X, Y, pressure

SVM, random forests and BayesNet

97.9% accuracy mobile phones 96.79% - tablets

Feng at al. [9]

2014

23 phone owners, 100 guest users

Unconstrained

Real-life scenarios

Timestamp, X, Y, size, pressure, swipe length, swipe curvature

DTW with one nearest neighbour

90% accuracy

Wang et al. [10]

2017

160 set of app usage data

Unconstrained

Not Specified

Timestamp, X, Y, phone orientation

SVM RBF Kernel

AUC (area under the curve) score of 80% to 96% (detecting unauthorised access) %

Our model

2018

50

Unconstrained

Sitting, walking, treadmill, travelling on a bus

Timestamp, X, Y, finger area, finger pressure

SVM, kNN and naive Bayes

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