Study on biometric authentication systems, challenges and future trends: A review

Author

Dharavath, Krishna ; Talukdar, Fazal A. ; Laskar, Rabul Hussain

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Nat. Inst. of Technol., Silchar, India

fYear

2013

fDate

26-28 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

User authentication in computer system is done based on certain security measures like passwords, keys, id cards, pin etc. however, the misuse and theft of these security measures are also increasing due to day by day advancement of technology. This led to the birth of biometric security systems in which the authentication of an individual is done based on a feature vector derived from physiological and/or behavioral characteristics of a human being by using biometrics technology, an individual can be authenticated based on “who he is” rather. In order to help beginners chose their research area or a particular biometric technology, all the emerging biometric technologies and challenges in each technology have been discussed in this paper in detail. Future trends in biometric technologies are also discussed.

Keywords

biometrics (access control); security of data; behavioral characteristics; biometric authentication systems; biometric security systems; biometrics technology; computer system authentication; feature vector; physiological characteristics; Authentication; biometrics; challenges; survey; traits; trends; verification;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence and Computing Research (ICCIC), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Enathi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1594-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCIC.2013.6724278

Filename

6724278