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A Non-Cooperative User Authentication System in Robot Environments
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- Authors
- Do Hyung Kim, Jae Yeon Lee, Ho-Sub Yoon, Eui-Young Cha
- Issue Date
- 2007-05
- Citation
- IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, v.53, no.2, pp.804-811
- ISSN
- 0098-3063
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Language
- English
- Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- For intelligent service robots, it is essential to recognize users in order to provide appropriate services to a correctly authenticated user. However, in robot environments in which users freely move around the robot, it is difficult to force users to cooperate for authentication as in traditional biometric security systems. This paper introduces a user authentication system that is designed to recognize users who are unconscious of a robot or of cameras. In the proposed system, biometrics and semi-biometrics are incorporated to cope with the limited applicability of traditional authentication techniques. Semi-biometrics indicates a set of features useful for discriminating persons, but only in the interested group of persons and in the interested frame of time. As a representative semi-biometric feature, body height and color characteristics of clothes are investigated. In particular, a novel method to measure body height with single camera is proposed. In addition, by incorporating tracking functionality, the system can maintain the user status information continuously, which is useful not only for recognition but also for finding a designated person. © 2007 IEEE.
- KSP Keywords
- Authentication technique, Biometric features, Color characteristics, Non-cooperative, Service robots, Status information, User authentication system, biometric security systems, body height, intelligent service, novel method