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Neural Network-Powered Finger-Drawn Biometric Authentication

Published: November 14, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2511.11235v1

By: Maan Al Balkhi , Kordian Gontarska , Marko Harasic and more

Potential Business Impact:

Unlocks phones by tracing numbers with your finger.

Business Areas:
Biometrics Biotechnology, Data and Analytics, Science and Engineering

This paper investigates neural network-based biometric authentication using finger-drawn digits on touchscreen devices. We evaluated CNN and autoencoder architectures for user authentication through simple digit patterns (0-9) traced with finger input. Twenty participants contributed 2,000 finger-drawn digits each on personal touchscreen devices. We compared two CNN architectures: a modified Inception-V1 network and a lightweight shallow CNN for mobile environments. Additionally, we examined Convolutional and Fully Connected autoencoders for anomaly detection. Both CNN architectures achieved ~89% authentication accuracy, with the shallow CNN requiring fewer parameters. Autoencoder approaches achieved ~75% accuracy. The results demonstrate that finger-drawn symbol authentication provides a viable, secure, and user-friendly biometric solution for touchscreen devices. This approach can be integrated with existing pattern-based authentication methods to create multi-layered security systems for mobile applications.

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Page Count
8 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Machine Learning (CS)