Security and privacy in virtual reality: a literature survey

A Giaretta - Virtual Reality, 2024 - Springer
Virtual reality (VR) is a multibillionaire market that keeps growing, year after year. As VR is
becoming prevalent in households and small businesses, it is critical to address the effects …

[HTML][HTML] Model compression techniques in biometrics applications: A survey

E Caldeira, PC Neto, M Huber, N Damer, AF Sequeira - Information Fusion, 2025 - Elsevier
The development of deep learning algorithms has extensively empowered humanity's task
automatization capacity. However, the huge improvement in the performance of these …

Identifying users by their hand tracking data in augmented and virtual reality

J Liebers, S Brockel, U Gruenefeld… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Nowadays, Augmented and Virtual Reality devices are widely available and are
often shared among users due to their high cost. Thus, distinguishing users to offer …

Hidden reality: Caution, your hand gesture inputs in the immersive virtual world are visible to all!

SRK Gopal, D Shukla, JD Wheelock… - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
Text entry is an inevitable task while using Virtual Reality (VR) devices in a wide range of
applications such as remote learning, gaming, and virtual meeting. VR users enter …

Who is Alyx? A new behavioral biometric dataset for user identification in XR

C Rack, T Fernando, M Yalcin, A Hotho… - Frontiers in Virtual …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: This paper addresses the need for reliable user identification in Extended
Reality (XR), focusing on the scarcity of public datasets in this area. Methods: We present a …

A large-scale study of personal identifiability of virtual reality motion over time

MR Miller, E Han, C DeVeaux, E Jones, R Chen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In recent years, social virtual reality (VR), sometimes described as the" metaverse," has
become widely available. With its potential comes risks, including risks to privacy. To …

Biometrics in extended reality: a review

A Agarwal, R Ramachandra, S Venkatesh… - Discover Artificial …, 2024 - Springer
In the domain of Extended Reality (XR), particularly Virtual Reality (VR), extensive research
has been devoted to harnessing this transformative technology in various real-world …

Exploring the stability of behavioral biometrics in virtual reality in a remote field study: Towards implicit and continuous user identification through body movements

J Liebers, C Burschik, U Gruenefeld… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Behavioral biometrics has recently become a viable alternative method for user identification
in Virtual Reality (VR). Its ability to identify users based solely on their implicit interaction …

Comparison of data encodings and machine learning architectures for user identification on arbitrary motion sequences

C Rack, A Hotho, ME Latoschik - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reliable and robust user identification and authentication are important and often necessary
requirements for many digital services. It becomes paramount in social virtual reality (VR) to …

Extensible motion-based identification of xr users using non-specific motion data

C Rack, K Kobs, T Fernando, A Hotho… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we combine the strengths of distance-based and classification-based
approaches for the task of identifying extended reality users by their movements. For this we …