Title :
A Topologic Approach to User-Dependent Key Extraction from Fingerprints
Author :
Gudkov, Vladimir Yu ; Ushmaev, Oleg
Author_Institution :
R&D Dept., Sonda Technol., Miass, Russia
Abstract :
The paper briefly describes an approach to key extraction from fingerprint images based on topological descriptors of minutiae point neighborhood. The approach allows designing biometric encryption procedures with variable key length and successful decryption rate.
Keywords :
cryptography; fingerprint identification; biometric encryption; decryption; fingerprint images; point neighborhood; topologic approach; user-dependent key extraction; Entropy; Estimation; Fingerprint recognition; Image coding; Image matching; Indexes; NIST; biocryptography; fingerprint biometrics; minutiae topology;
Conference_Titel :
Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2010 20th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7542-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICPR.2010.319