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On the Security Risk of Cancelable Biometrics
Over the years, a number of biometric template protection schemes, primarily
based on the notion of "cancelable biometrics" (CB) have been proposed. An
ideal cancelable biometric algorithm possesses four criteria, i.e.,
irreversibility, revocability, unlinkability, and performance preservation.
Cancelable biometrics employed an irreversible but distance preserving
transform to convert the original biometric templates to the protected
templates. Matching in the transformed domain can be accomplished due to the
property of distance preservation. However, the distance preservation property
invites security issues, which are often neglected. In this paper, we analyzed
the property of distance preservation in cancelable biometrics, and
subsequently, a pre-image attack is launched to break the security of
cancelable biometrics under the Kerckhoffs's assumption, where the cancelable
biometrics algorithm and parameters are known to the attackers. Furthermore, we
proposed a framework based on mutual information to measure the information
leakage incurred by the distance preserving transform, and demonstrated that
information leakage is theoretically inevitable. The results examined on face,
iris, and fingerprint revealed that the risks origin from the matching score
computed from the distance/similarity of two cancelable templates jeopardize
the security of cancelable biometrics schemes greatly. At the end, we discussed
the security and accuracy trade-off and made recommendations against pre-image
attacks in order to design a secure biometric system.Comment: Submit to P
Deep learning approach for Touchless Palmprint Recognition based on Alexnet and Fuzzy Support Vector Machine
Due to stable and discriminative features, palmprint-based biometrics has been gaining popularity in recent years. Most of the traditional palmprint recognition systems are designed with a group of hand-crafted features that ignores some additional features. For tackling the problem described above, a Convolution Neural Network (CNN) model inspired by Alex-net that learns the features from the ROI images and classifies using a fuzzy support vector machine is proposed. The output of the CNN is fed as input to the fuzzy Support vector machine. The CNN\u27s receptive field aids in extracting the most discriminative features from the palmprint images, and Fuzzy SVM results in a robust classification. The experiments are conducted on popular contactless datasets such as IITD, POLYU2, Tongji, and CASIA databases. Results demonstrate our approach outperformers several state-of-art techniques for palmprint recognition. Using this approach, we obtain 99.98% testing accuracy for the Tongji dataset and 99.76 % for the POLYU-II datasets
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