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Keystroke dynamics based authentication (KDA) verifies a user based on the typing pattern. During enroll, a few typing patterns are provided, which are then used to train a classifier. The typing style of a user is not expected to change. However, sometimes it does change, resulting in a high false reject. In order to achieve a better authentication performance, we propose to continually retrain classifiers with recent login typing patterns by updating the training data set. There are two ways to update it. The moving window uses a fixed number of most recent patterns while the growing window uses all the new patterns as well as the original enroll patterns. We applied the proposed method to the real data set involving 21 users. The experimental results show that both the moving window and the growing window approach outperform the fixed window approach, which does not retrain a classifier.
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Kang, P., Hwang, Ss., Cho, S. (2007). Continual Retraining of Keystroke Dynamics Based Authenticator. In: Lee, SW., Li, S.Z. (eds) Advances in Biometrics. ICB 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4642. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74549-5_125
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