Personal authentication security is an essential area of research in privacy and cybersecurity. For individual verification, fingerprint and facial recognition have proved particularly useful. However, such technologies have flaws such as fingerprint fabrication and external impediments. Different AI-based technologies have been proposed to overcome forging or impersonating authentication concerns. Electrocardiogram (ECG)-based user authentication has recently attracted considerable curiosity from researchers. The Electrocardiogram is among the most reliable advanced techniques for authentication since, unlike other biometrics, it confirms that the individual is real and alive. This study utilizes a user authentication system based on electrocardiography (ECG) signals using deep learning algorithms. The ECG data are collected from users to create a unique biometric profile for each individual. The proposed methodology utilizes Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) to analyze the ECG data. The CNNs are trained to extract features from the ECG data, while the LSTM networks are used to model the temporal dependencies in the data. The evaluation of the performance of the proposed system is conducted through experiments. It demonstrates that it effectively identifies users based on their ECG data, achieving high accuracy rates. The suggested techniques obtained an overall accuracy of 98.34% for CNN and 99.69% for LSTM using the Physikalisch–Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) database. Overall, the proposed system offers a secure and convenient method for user authentication using ECG data and deep learning algorithms. The approach has the potential to provide a secure and convenient method for user authentication in various applications.
Tourists share opinions about Points of Interest (POIs) through online posts and social media platforms. Opinion mining is a popular technique for extracting feedback from tourists who visited various places hidden in reviews, which are used in several tourist applications that generally reflect their preference towards POI. On the other hand, a trip schema is difficult for tourists because they must pick up sequential POIs in unknown areas that meet their limitations and preferences. However, most prior trip suggestion methods are suboptimal for several reasons, including that they do not consider valuable user reviews and rely exclusively on left-to-right unidirectional discovery sequence models. This study proposes a Neural Network-Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) POI recommendation system for calculating user similarity based on opinions and preferences. In addition, it presents a method for discovering sequential trip recommendations with Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformer (BERT) using a deep learning method. Furthermore, this neural hybrid framework identifies a list of optimal trip candidates by combining personalized POIs with multifaceted context. Furthermore, this method employs the valuable information contained in user posts and their demographic information on social media to mitigate the well-known cold start issue. In the experimental evaluation based on two datasets, Tripadvisor and Yelp, this hybrid method outperforms other state-of-the-art methods when considering F-Score, nDCG, RMSE, and MAP.
Telehealth systems have evolved into more prevalent services that can serve people in remote locations and at their homes via smart devices and 5G systems. Protecting the privacy and security of users is crucial in such online systems. Although there are many protocols to provide security through strong authentication systems, sophisticated IoT attacks are becoming more prevalent. Using machine learning to handle biometric information or physical layer features is key to addressing authentication problems for human and IoT devices, respectively. This tutorial discusses machine learning applications to propose robust authentication protocols. Since machine learning methods are trained based on hidden concepts in biometric and physical layer data, these dynamic authentication models can be more reliable than traditional methods. The main advantage of these methods is that the behavioral traits of humans and devices are tough to counterfeit. Furthermore, machine learning facilitates continuous and context-aware authentication.
Advancements in digital communications that permit remote patient visits and condition monitoring can be attributed to a revolution in digital healthcare systems. Continuous authentication based on contextual information offers a number of advantages over traditional authentication, including the ability to estimate the likelihood that the users are who they claim to be on an ongoing basis over the course of an entire session, making it a much more effective security measure for proactively regulating authorized access to sensitive data. Current authentication models that rely on machine learning have their shortcomings, such as the difficulty in enrolling new users to the system or model training sensitivity to imbalanced datasets. To address these issues, we propose using ECG signals, which are easily accessible in digital healthcare systems, for authentication through an Ensemble Siamese Network (ESN) that can handle small changes in ECG signals. Adding preprocessing for feature extraction to this model can result in superior results. We trained this model on ECG-ID and PTB benchmark datasets, achieving 93.6% and 96.8% accuracy and 1.76% and 1.69% equal error rates, respectively. The combination of data availability, simplicity, and robustness makes it an ideal choice for smart healthcare and telehealth.
12 November 2018 in Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Electrical Engineering
Recent research have depicted that hidden Markov model (HMM) is a persuasive option for malware detection. However, some advanced metamorphic malware are able to overcome the traditional methods based on HMMs. This proposed approach provides a two-layer technique to overcome these challenges. Malware contain various sequences of opcodes some of which are more important and help detect the malware and the rest cause interference. The important sequences of opcodes are extracted by eliminating partial sequences due to the fact that partial sequences of opcodes have more similarities to benign files. In this method, the sliding window technique is used to extract the sequences. In this paper, HMMs are trained using the important sequences of opcodes that will lead to better results. In comparison to previous methods, the results demonstrate that the proposed method is more accurate in metamorphic malware detection and shows higher speed at classification.