Abstract
Smart mobile devices are playing a more and more important role in our daily life. Cancelable biometrics is a promising mechanism to provide authentication to mobile devices and protect biometric templates by applying a noninvertible transformation to raw biometric data. However, the negative effect of nonlinear distortion will usually degrade the matching performance significantly, which is a nontrivial factor when designing a cancelable template. Moreover, the attacks via record multiplicity (ARM) present a threat to the existing cancelable biometrics, which is still a challenging open issue. To address these problems, in this paper, we propose a new cancelable fingerprint template which can not only mitigate the negative effect of nonlinear distortion by combining multiple feature sets, but also defeat the ARM attack through a proposed feature decorrelation algorithm. Our work is a new contribution to the design of cancelable biometrics with a concrete method against the ARM attack. Experimental results on public databases and security analysis show the validity of the proposed cancelable template.
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of Publication
2018
Publication Title
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Publisher
Hindawi Limited
School
School of Science
RAS ID
26593
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Comments
Yang, W., Hu, J., Wang, S., & Wu, Q. (2018). Biometrics Based Privacy-Preserving Authentication and Mobile Template Protection. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2018, 17 pages. Available here