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Xiaomeng Qi
dblp:341/7881
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Computer networks · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Biometric security · 81% Authentication and access control · 19% | |
| Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
1 paper |
Wearable and physiological sensing · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Wearable and physiological sensing
earable sensing |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Decoding Air Friction Rhythms: Enabling User Identification With Out-Ear Microphones in COTS Earphones · IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 2026 |
Biometric security
behavioral biometrics |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Decoding Air Friction Rhythms: Enabling User Identification With Out-Ear Microphones in COTS Earphones · IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 2026 |
Authentication and access control
continuous authentication |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Decoding Air Friction Rhythms: Enabling User Identification With Out-Ear Microphones in COTS Earphones · IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 2026 |
Biometric security › biometric authentication
earable authentication |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Decoding Air Friction Rhythms: Enabling User Identification With Out-Ear Microphones in COTS Earphones · IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
variational autoencoder · 2.0spectral analysis · 2.0contrastive continual learning · 2.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Decoding Air Friction Rhythms: Enabling User Identification With Out-Ear Microphones in COTS EarphonesabstractEar-worn devices (earables) are increasingly central to smart system interactions involving privacy-sensitive data, yet secure user authentication on these devices remains a challenge. Existing methods often depend on auxiliary sensors like in-ear microphones or accelerometers, which are absent in many commercial earables. This paper introduces a novel biometric approach leveraging natural head gestures. We observe that head gestures generate unique air friction patterns detectable by out-ear microphones, producing sonic signatures shaped by the head and neck's musculoskeletal dynamics. These signatures serve as a robust basis for earable authentication. We propose HMPrint, a system that captures air-friction-induced sonic effects (AFiSe) from head gestures via outear microphones for authentication. HMPrint incorporates advanced spectral analysis, synthetic data generation using variational autoencoders, and a contrastive continual learning framework to enhance robustness against inconsistent wearing postures, varied movement patterns, and environmental noise. A proof-of-concept prototype was tested with 30 participants and 15 commercial earable models across diverse conditions. Results show that HMPrint achieves high authentication accuracy (97.49% recall), a low FAR (2.34%), and strong resistance to spoofing (98% success rate). Daibo Liu, Xiaomeng Qi, Huigui Rong, Hongbo Jiang 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. | 3 |