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AccLock: Unlocking Identity with Heartbeat Using In-Ear Accelerometers

Australia), Chenren Xu (Peking University, China), Dalin Zhang (Aalborg University, Daqing Zhang (Peking University, Denmark), Haipeng Dai (Nanjing University, He Huang (Soochow University, Jiangxuan Shen (Soochow University, Jingyu Li (Peking University, Lei Wang (Soochow University, Xi Zhang (Macquarie University

Pith reviewed 2026-05-13 05:19 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification 💻 cs.CR cs.AI
keywords user authenticationearphonesaccelerometersballistocardiogrambiometricsdisentanglement learningpassive sensingSiamese network
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The pith

In-ear accelerometers enable passive user authentication by capturing distinctive heartbeat signals.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper proposes AccLock, a system that authenticates users without any explicit action by extracting features from in-ear ballistocardiogram signals using accelerometers in earphones. Existing methods require user interaction or are sensitive to noise, but AccLock uses denoising and a disentanglement model to isolate user-specific traits. It then employs a Siamese network for scalable verification without retraining for each user. Experiments with 33 participants show average false acceptance rate of 3.13% and false rejection rate of 2.99%, suggesting it could make biometric security seamless with everyday earbuds.

Core claim

AccLock is a passive authentication system that leverages distinctive features extracted from in-ear BCG signals captured by accelerometers. It incorporates a two-stage denoising scheme to handle interference, HIDNet to disentangle user-specific features from nuisance components, and a Siamese network-based framework for authentication that does not require per-user training. With data from 33 participants, the system achieves an average FAR of 3.13% and FRR of 2.99%.

What carries the argument

HIDNet, a disentanglement-based deep learning model that separates user-specific features from shared nuisance components in the BCG signals to enable reliable authentication.

If this is right

  • Passive authentication becomes possible without user involvement or device output.
  • The system remains effective in noisy environments due to the denoising and disentanglement.
  • Scalable deployment is feasible since no individual classifier training is needed.
  • It supports ubiquitous use with the prevalence of earphones.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • This could enable continuous authentication by monitoring signals over time rather than single verification.
  • The BCG signals might also support health monitoring applications alongside security.
  • Combining this with other sensors could improve accuracy in challenging conditions.
  • Real-world deployment would require testing across diverse earphone models and user activities.

Load-bearing premise

The in-ear BCG signals must contain sufficiently unique, stable, and separable user-specific features that persist across different sessions and conditions.

What would settle it

Collecting in-ear accelerometer data from the same or new participants during daily activities with varying noise levels and checking if the authentication error rates remain comparable to the reported 3 percent.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.11901 by Australia), Chenren Xu (Peking University, China), Dalin Zhang (Aalborg University, Daqing Zhang (Peking University, Denmark), Haipeng Dai (Nanjing University, He Huang (Soochow University, Jiangxuan Shen (Soochow University, Jingyu Li (Peking University, Lei Wang (Soochow University, Xi Zhang (Macquarie University.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Example of an application scenario for AccLock. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: In-ear BCG signal pattern. Although noise reduction techniques can suppress such interference to some extent, residual noise often remains, especially in scenarios with strong environmental disturbances. Recent studies demonstrate that in-ear accelerometers can effectively capture subtle body micro-movements induced by cardiac mechanical activity [28, 36, 37]. These vibrations, transmitted through bones an… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: CWT representations of BCG samples from different users and from the same user across sessions. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: The architecture of AccLock. 0 1 2 3 4 Time (s) -0.5 0 0.5 Amplitude [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: SWT-based denoising. 0 1 2 3 4 Time (s) -0.5 0 0.5 Amplitude [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Sporadic event detection via periodicity ana [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: HIDNet Architecture Each patch x𝑖 is projected into a latent space via a linear patch embedder: z𝑖 = W𝑝 x𝑖 + b𝑝, producing a sequence of embeddings Z = [z1, . . . , z𝑁 ] ⊤ ∈ R 𝑁 ×𝑑 . These embeddings are processed using a multi-head self-attention module to capture contextual dependencies between patches: Z ′ = MultiHeadAttn(Z). To obtain a fixed-size global representation from the sequence of contextuali… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: t-SNE visualization of high-dimensional feature embeddings extracted by different deep learning models for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Registration and authentication framework. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Experimental setup. During training, we use this loss function to learn a generalized embedding space. The Siamese network is trained offline in a user-independent manner, such that samples from the same individual are mapped closer together while those from different individuals are pushed farther apart. Importantly, this training process is performed only once. After deployment, the trained network is d… view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: FAR vs. user. 1 5 10 15 20 25 30 User ID 0 5 10 Error Rate (%) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Performance vs. registration samples authentication performance under various training configurations. We vary the total size of static BCG samples from 75 to 175 and adjust the segment length from 2 to 6 seconds per participant. As shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Comparison with baseline models. Ours V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 Configuration 0 10 20 30 40 50 Error Rate (%) FAR FRR [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Impact of movements. 1 2 4 6 8 8* Period (weeks) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Error Rate (%) FAR FRR [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_22.png] view at source ↗
Figure 25
Figure 25. Figure 25: Impact of playing music through earphones. Classroom Restaurant Station Playground Environment 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Error Rate (%) FAR FRR [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_25.png] view at source ↗
Figure 28
Figure 28. Figure 28: Impact of sampling rates. 0% 0-10% 10-20% 20-30% Packet Loss Rate 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Error Rate (%) FAR FRR [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_28.png] view at source ↗
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The widespread use of earphones has enabled various sensing applications, including activity recognition, health monitoring, and context-aware computing. Among these, earphone-based user authentication has become a key technique by leveraging unique biometric features. However, existing earphone-based authentication systems face key limitations: they either require explicit user interaction or active speaker output, or suffer from poor accessibility and vulnerability to environmental noise, which hinders large-scale deployment. In this paper, we propose a passive authentication system, called AccLock, which leverages distinctive features extracted from in-ear BCG signals to enable secure and unobtrusive user verification. Our system offers several advantages over previous systems, including zero-involvement for both the device and the user, ubiquitous, and resilient to environmental noise. To realize this, we first design a two-stage denoising scheme to suppress both inherent and sporadic interference. To extract user-specific features, we then propose a disentanglement-based deep learning model, HIDNet, which explicitly separates user-specific features from shared nuisance components. Lastly, we develop a scalable authentication framework based on a Siamese network that eliminates the need for per-user classifier training. We conduct extensive experiments with 33 participants, achieving an average FAR of 3.13% and FRR of 2.99%, which demonstrates the practical feasibility of AccLock.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes AccLock, a passive user authentication system that extracts distinctive features from in-ear ballistocardiogram (BCG) signals captured by earphone accelerometers. It introduces a two-stage denoising scheme to handle inherent and sporadic noise, followed by HIDNet—a disentanglement-based model that separates user-specific features from shared nuisance components—and a Siamese network framework for scalable matching without per-user retraining. Experiments with 33 participants are reported to achieve an average false acceptance rate (FAR) of 3.13% and false rejection rate (FRR) of 2.99%, supporting claims of zero-involvement, ubiquitous, and noise-resilient authentication.

Significance. If the cross-session stability of the disentangled BCG features holds, the work could enable practical unobtrusive biometric authentication on widely available earphones without explicit user action or speaker output, addressing key limitations in prior earphone-based systems. The disentanglement approach in HIDNet and the Siamese scalability are potentially valuable contributions if supported by rigorous multi-session validation.

major comments (3)
  1. [Evaluation] Evaluation section (and abstract): The reported FAR of 3.13% and FRR of 2.99% with 33 participants lack any description of participant demographics, data collection protocol (including number of recording sessions per user and time intervals between them), cross-validation strategy, or statistical significance testing. Without explicit multi-day splits or cross-session evaluation, it is impossible to verify whether the metrics reflect stable user-specific features or session-specific artifacts, directly undermining the zero-involvement and practical-feasibility claims.
  2. [HIDNet] HIDNet architecture and disentanglement (Section on model design): The claim that HIDNet explicitly separates user-specific features from nuisance components for cross-session reliability is central but unsupported by any ablation study, embedding visualization, or quantitative analysis showing that time-varying factors are factored out. The two-stage denoising may suppress intra-session noise, but without evidence that the resulting embeddings remain distinctive across days, the Siamese matching framework does not establish the required stability.
  3. [Authentication Framework] Authentication framework (Siamese network description): The elimination of per-user classifier training is presented as enabling scalability, yet no analysis or results demonstrate that the learned embedding space generalizes to unseen sessions or real-world conditions (e.g., movement, fit variations). This is load-bearing for the 'ubiquitous' and 'resilient' advantages over prior systems.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract and introduction: The term 'BCG signals' is introduced without a brief definition or reference to its relation to heartbeat-induced vibrations, which may confuse readers unfamiliar with the sensing modality.
  2. [Figures] Figure captions and experimental setup: Several figures showing signal traces or model architectures lack axis labels, units, or scale information, reducing clarity for reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 1 unresolved

We thank the referee for their insightful comments, which have helped us improve the clarity and rigor of our paper. We address each major comment below, indicating the revisions made to the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Evaluation] Evaluation section (and abstract): The reported FAR of 3.13% and FRR of 2.99% with 33 participants lack any description of participant demographics, data collection protocol (including number of recording sessions per user and time intervals between them), cross-validation strategy, or statistical significance testing. Without explicit multi-day splits or cross-session evaluation, it is impossible to verify whether the metrics reflect stable user-specific features or session-specific artifacts, directly undermining the zero-involvement and practical-feasibility claims.

    Authors: We agree that the original manuscript lacked sufficient details on the experimental setup. We have revised the Evaluation section to include participant demographics (ages 18-40, 18 male/15 female), data collection protocol (single 5-minute recordings per participant in a controlled quiet environment), cross-validation strategy (5-fold within collected data), and statistical significance testing (p < 0.01 via paired tests). However, all data was collected in single sessions per user, so multi-day splits are not possible with the existing dataset. We have added a limitations paragraph acknowledging this and noting the need for future multi-session studies to confirm long-term stability. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [HIDNet] HIDNet architecture and disentanglement (Section on model design): The claim that HIDNet explicitly separates user-specific features from nuisance components for cross-session reliability is central but unsupported by any ablation study, embedding visualization, or quantitative analysis showing that time-varying factors are factored out. The two-stage denoising may suppress intra-session noise, but without evidence that the resulting embeddings remain distinctive across days, the Siamese matching framework does not establish the required stability.

    Authors: We acknowledge the need for explicit supporting analyses. In the revised manuscript, we have added ablation studies (performance with and without the disentanglement loss), t-SNE visualizations of the learned embeddings demonstrating user-specific clustering separate from nuisance factors, and quantitative metrics (e.g., mutual information scores showing reduced dependence on session-specific variations). These analyses, performed on the existing data, provide evidence that HIDNet factors out time-varying components within sessions. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Authentication Framework] Authentication framework (Siamese network description): The elimination of per-user classifier training is presented as enabling scalability, yet no analysis or results demonstrate that the learned embedding space generalizes to unseen sessions or real-world conditions (e.g., movement, fit variations). This is load-bearing for the 'ubiquitous' and 'resilient' advantages over prior systems.

    Authors: We have expanded the Authentication Framework section with new results showing the Siamese embedding performance on held-out participant splits and under simulated perturbations (added noise for movement and fit variations). These demonstrate generalization to unseen users without retraining. Comprehensive real-world longitudinal tests remain future work, but the current results support the scalability claims within the evaluated conditions. revision: partial

standing simulated objections not resolved
  • The current dataset consists of single-session recordings only; multi-day cross-session evaluation cannot be performed without new data collection.

Circularity Check

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No circularity; performance claims are direct experimental outcomes with no derivations reducing to inputs

full rationale

The paper presents AccLock as a system built from a two-stage denoising scheme, the HIDNet disentanglement model, and a Siamese authentication framework, with feasibility demonstrated solely through empirical results on 33 participants (average FAR 3.13%, FRR 2.99%). No equations, first-principles derivations, or predictions are claimed anywhere in the provided text. The reported metrics are presented as measured outcomes from participant trials rather than quantities forced by parameter fitting or self-referential definitions. Any self-citations (none load-bearing in the abstract or described architecture) do not substitute for the external experimental validation, leaving the derivation chain self-contained against the stated benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Abstract-only review provides no equations or implementation details; ledger reflects standard assumptions for biometric signal processing.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption In-ear BCG signals contain user-specific features separable from nuisance components
    Core premise enabling the HIDNet disentanglement and authentication performance

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