Piezoelectric and Machine Learning Based Keystroke Dynamics for Highly Secure User Authentication

Cyber security is of significance in today’s e-commerce applications. In this article, we present a piezoelectric touch sensing supported keystroke dynamics based identity authentication technique, for providing a secure access manner to smartphones. Here, the polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) based piezoelectric touch panel can learn detailed force touch habits of users. With a support vector machine (SVM) algorithm, our proposed frequency domain features experimentally demonstrate a better authentication accuracy of 98.3%, compared to the traditional time domain features. The work showcases a feasible method of combining functional materials and artificial intelligence (AI) for satisfying highly secure requirements.