Error tolerance and privacy enhancement in matching fingerprint templates

Author

Gao, Qinghai

Author_Institution

Dept. Security Syst., SUNY, Farmingdale, NY, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

7-7 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Biometric systems attempt to solve a matching problem through live measurements of human body features. However, two obstacles hinder the wider applications of biometrics: non-reproducibility and privacy concerns. In this paper we study fingerprint minutiae-based templates. Our testing results show templates can still match under some step-wised modification and therefore the biometric system can tolerate certain amounts of errors. Our testing results also show that partial fingerprint templates can still match successfully. Therefore, the security and privacy of fingerprint can be protected with these techniques.

Keywords

data privacy; fingerprint identification; biometric systems; error tolerance; fingerprint minutiae-based templates; fingerprint privacy; fingerprint template matching; human body features; privacy enhancement; security; step-wised modification; Anthropometry; Biometrics; Error correction codes; Fingerprint recognition; Humans; Privacy; Protection; Security; Testing; Voting; biometric; error tolerance; privacy; template;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applications and Technology Conference (LISAT), 2010 Long Island Systems

Conference_Location

Farmingdale, NY

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5548-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5550-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LISAT.2010.5478288

Filename

5478288