An academic article co-authored by Dr Manousos Klados, Associate Professor at our Psychology Department, Dr Simeon Veloudis, Associate Professor at our Computer Science Department and Senior Researcher at SEERC and Christos Stergiadis, Research Associate at SEERC, has been published on Sensors, a leading international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on the science and technology of sensors.
More specifically the article ‘A Personalized User Authentication System Based on EEG Signals’ is an interdisciplinary work involving the Departments of Psychology and Computer Science of CITY College, University of York Europe Campus, together with the 3rd Neurological Clinic of Papanikolaou hospital.
The article focuses on the issue of self authentication. In our everyday lives, we all use different methods to authenticate ourselves, like our personal password or our fingerprint, in order to gain access to our devices (mobile phone, computer etc.). In systems with higher security standards though, like governmental or military facilities, a more robust authentication system is necessary to prevent intruder attacks or information leaks. In this line, the article addresses this issue by introducing a personalised user authentication technique based on electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. The proposed system is both more accurate and practical compared with previous attempts in this field and poses as a viable option for actual use in the future.
From left to right: Dr Manousos Klados, Associate Professor at our Psychology Department, Dr Simeon Veloudis, Associate Professor at our Computer Science Department and Senior Researcher at SEERC and Christos Stergiadis, Research Associate at SEERC.