Investigating Gender Bias in Touch Biometrics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11457v1
• Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:19:42 GMT
• Title: Investigating Gender Bias in Touch Biometrics
• Abstract summary: This paper investigates gender bias in swipe-based authentication using the BBMAS (117 users) and ANTAL (71 users) datasets.<n>XGBoost achieved authentication accuracies of 92% and 94% on the BBMAS and ANTAL datasets, respectively.<n>No significant gender differences in authentication error rates across almost all experimental settings.
• Score: 2.2228471493209994
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Behavioral biometrics offer a promising approach for continuous authentication, but their fairness across demographic groups remains largely unexplored. This paper investigates gender bias in swipe-based authentication using the BBMAS (117 users) and ANTAL (71 users) datasets and evaluates XGBoost and DenseNet classifiers through False Acceptance Rate (FAR) and False Rejection Rate (FRR). XGBoost achieved authentication accuracies of 92% and 94% on the BBMAS and ANTAL datasets, respectively, while statistical tests (Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Mann-Whitney, and Wasserstein permutation) found no significant gender differences in authentication error rates across almost all experimental settings. These findings suggest that swipe-based authentication can achieve high accuracy while maintaining comparable performance for male and female users, supporting its potential as a fair and reliable behavioral biometric modality.

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