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However, recently, researchers have demonstrated that the performance of behavioral biometrics is insufficiently accurate. Furthermore, the unique characteristics of mobile devices, such as limited storage and energy, make it subject to constrained capacity of data collection and processing. In this paper, we propose an implicit authentication architecture based on edge computing, coined Edge computing-based mobile Device Implicit Authentication (EDIA), which exploits edge-based gait biometric identification using a deep learning model to authenticate users. The gait data captured by a device\u2019s accelerometer and gyroscope sensors is utilized as the input of our optimized model, which consists of a CNN and a LSTM in tandem. Especially, we deal with extracting the features of gait signal in a two-dimensional domain through converting the original signal into an image, and then input it into our network. In addition, to reduce computation overhead of mobile devices, the model for implicit authentication is generated on the cloud server, and the user authentication process also takes place on the edge devices. We evaluate the performance of EDIA under different scenarios where the results show that i) we achieve a true positive rate of 97.77% and also a 2% false positive rate; and ii) EDIA still reaches high accuracy with limited dataset size.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21134592","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,5]],"date-time":"2021-07-05T04:18:21Z","timestamp":1625458701000},"page":"4592","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":36,"title":["Gait-Based Implicit Authentication Using Edge Computing and Deep Learning for Mobile Devices"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Xin","family":"Zeng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7767-0553","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiaomei","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shuqun","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhicai","family":"Shi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chihung","family":"Chi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Sandy Bay 7005, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"369489","article-title":"Analyzing user awareness of privacy data leak in mobile applications","volume":"2015","author":"Kim","year":"2015","journal-title":"Mob. 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