MULTI-MODEL BIOMETRICS AUTHENTICATION FRAMEWORK

Authentication is the process to conform the truth of an attribute claimed by real entity. Biometric technology is widely useful for the process of authentication. Today, biometric is becoming a key aspect in a multitude of applications. So this paper proposed the applications of such a multimodal biometric authentication system. Proposed system establishes a real time authentication framework using multi-model biometrics which consists of the embedded system verify the signatures, fingerprint and key pattern to authenticate the user. This is one of the most reliable, fast and cost effective tool for the user authentication

Enhancement of Iris Recognition System Based on Phase Only Correlation

Iris recognition system is one of biometric based recognition/identification systems. Numerous techniques have been implemented to achieve a good recognition rate, including the ones based on Phase Only Correlation (POC). Significant and higher correlation peaks suggest that the system recognizes iris images of the same subject (person), while lower and unsignificant peaks correspond to recognition of those of difference subjects. Current POC methods have not investigated minimum iris point that can be used to achieve higher correlation peaks. This paper proposed a method that used only one-fourth of full normalized iris size to achieve higher (or at least the same) recognition rate. Simulation on CASIA version 1.0 iris image database showed that averaged recognition rate of the proposed method achieved 67%, higher than that of using one-half (56%) and full (53%) iris point. Furthermore, all (100%) POC peak values of the proposed method was higher than that of the method with full iris points.    

Classification and Verification of Online Handwritten Signatures with Time Causal Information Theory Quantifiers

We present a new approach for online handwritten signature classification and verification based on descriptors stemming from Information Theory. The proposal uses the Shannon Entropy, the Statistical Complexity, and the Fisher Information evaluated over the Bandt and Pompe symbolization of the horizontal and vertical coordinates of signatures. These six features are easy and fast to compute, and they are the input to an One-Class Support Vector Machine classifier. The results produced surpass state-of-the-art techniques that employ higher-dimensional feature spaces which often require specialized software and hardware. We assess the consistency of our proposal with respect to the size of the training sample, and we also use it to classify the signatures into meaningful groups.Comment: Submitted to PLOS On

Verificación de firmas en línea usando modelos de mezcla Gaussianas y estrategias de aprendizaje para conjuntos pequeños de muestras

RESUMEN: El artículo aborda el problema de entrenamiento de sistemas de verificación de firmas en línea cuando el número de muestras disponibles para el entrenamiento es bajo, debido a que en la mayoría de situaciones reales el número de firmas disponibles por usuario es muy limitado. El artículo evalúa nueve diferentes estrategias de clasificación basadas en modelos de mezclas de Gaussianas (GMM por sus siglas en inglés) y la estrategia conocida como modelo histórico universal (UBM por sus siglas en inglés), la cual está diseñada con el objetivo de trabajar bajo condiciones de menor número de muestras. Las estrategias de aprendizaje de los GMM incluyen el algoritmo convencional de Esperanza y Maximización, y una aproximación Bayesiana basada en aprendizaje variacional. Las firmas son caracterizadas principalmente en términos de velocidades y aceleraciones de los patrones de escritura a mano de los usuarios. Los resultados muestran que cuando se evalúa el sistema en una configuración genuino vs. impostor, el método GMM-UBM es capaz de mantener una precisión por encima del 93%, incluso en casos en los que únicamente se usa para entrenamiento el 20% de las muestras disponibles (equivalente a 5 firmas), mientras que la combinación de un modelo Bayesiano UBM con una Máquina de Soporte Vectorial (SVM por sus siglas en inglés), modelo conocido como GMM-Supervector, logra un 99% de acierto cuando las muestras de entrenamiento exceden las 20. Por otro lado, cuando se simula un ambiente real en el que no están disponibles muestras impostoras y se usa únicamente el 20% de las muestras para el entrenamiento, una vez más la combinación del modelo UBM Bayesiano y una SVM alcanza más del 77% de acierto, manteniendo una tasa de falsa aceptación inferior al 3%.ABSTRACT: This paper addresses the problem of training on-line signature verification systems when the number of training samples is small, facing the real-world scenario when the number of available signatures per user is limited. The paper evaluates nine different classification strategies based on Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM), and the Universal Background Model (UBM) strategy, which are designed to work under small-sample size conditions. The GMM’s learning strategies include the conventional Expectation-Maximisation algorithm and also a Bayesian approach based on variational learning. The signatures are characterised mainly in terms of velocities and accelerations of the users’ handwriting patterns. The results show that for a genuine vs. impostor test, the GMM-UBM method is able to keep the accuracy above 93%, even when only 20% of samples are used for training (5 signatures). Moreover, the combination of a full Bayesian UBM and a Support Vector Machine (SVM) (known as GMM-Supervector) is able to achieve 99% of accuracy when the training samples exceed 20. On the other hand, when simulating a real environment where there are not available impostor signatures, once again the combination of a full Bayesian UBM and a SVM, achieve more than 77% of accuracy and a false acceptance rate lower than 3%, using only 20% of the samples for training

Touchalytics: On the Applicability of Touchscreen Input as a Behavioral Biometric for Continuous Authentication

We investigate whether a classifier can continuously authenticate users based on the way they interact with the touchscreen of a smart phone. We propose a set of 30 behavioral touch features that can be extracted from raw touchscreen logs and demonstrate that different users populate distinct subspaces of this feature space. In a systematic experiment designed to test how this behavioral pattern exhibits consistency over time, we collected touch data from users interacting with a smart phone using basic navigation maneuvers, i.e., up-down and left-right scrolling. We propose a classification framework that learns the touch behavior of a user during an enrollment phase and is able to accept or reject the current user by monitoring interaction with the touch screen. The classifier achieves a median equal error rate of 0% for intra-session authentication, 2%-3% for inter-session authentication and below 4% when the authentication test was carried out one week after the enrollment phase. While our experimental findings disqualify this method as a standalone authentication mechanism for long-term authentication, it could be implemented as a means to extend screen-lock time or as a part of a multi-modal biometric authentication system.Comment: to appear at IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security; Download data from http://www.mariofrank.net/touchalytics

Interval valued symbolic representation of writer dependent features for online signature verification

This work focusses on exploitation of the notion of writer dependent parameters for online signature verification. Writer dependent parameters namely features, decision threshold and feature dimension have been well exploited for effective verification. For each writer, a subset of the original set of features are selected using different filter based feature selection criteria. This is in contrast to writer independent approaches which work on a common set of features for all writers. Once features for each writer are selected, they are represented in the form of an interval valued symbolic feature vector. Number of features and the decision threshold to be used for each writer during verification are decided based on the equal error rate (EER) estimated with only the signatures considered for training the system. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, extensive experiments are conducted on both MCYT (DB1) and MCYT (DB2) benchmarking online signature datasets consisting of signatures of 100 and 330 individuals respectively using the available 100 global parametric features. © 2017 Elsevier Lt