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Soft authentication using an infrared ceiling sensor network

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Person identification is needed to provide various personalized services at home or at the office. We propose a system for tracking persons identified at the entrance to a room in order to realize “soft authentication.” Our system can be constructed at low cost and works anytime and anywhere in a room. Through experiments, we confirmed that the system could track up to 5 persons with a high probability of correct identification, though precise identification is difficult.

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  1. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

    T. Hosokawa, M. Kudo, H. Nonaka & J. Toyama

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Hosokawa, T., Kudo, M., Nonaka, H. et al. Soft authentication using an infrared ceiling sensor network. Pattern Anal Applic 12, 237–249 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10044-008-0119-9

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