An artificially intelligent algorithm has learned to recognise people from the way their hands shake when they hold a smartphone
Technology 16 August 2022
By Jeremy Hsu
The small movements you make when holding a phone may be enough for it to identify you
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Your phone may be able to recognise you just from the vibrations in your hand. An algorithm trained to identify people this way did so with more than 90 per cent accuracy.
Gentian Jakllari at the Toulouse Institute of Computer Science Research in France and his colleagues trained an artificially intelligent algorithm to identify an individual based on patterns in their hand vibrations when holding a smartphone.
The team recruited 217 volunteers to …
