Performance and security evaluation of palmprint biometric templates

Template security is a critical issue in biometric systems because biometric templates cannot easily revoked and reissued. Nevertheless, biometric systems are prone to a variety of attacks. Hence, providing security to this form is of prime importance. In our work, we propose a biometric cryptosyste...

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Published in2015 4th International Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE) pp. 1 - 4
Main Authors Bouraoui, Imen, Merazka, Fatiha
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.12.2015
Subjects
biometric system
Biometrics (access control)
Encryption
Entropy
Error correction codes
Feature extraction
palmprint
template security
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Summary:Template security is a critical issue in biometric systems because biometric templates cannot easily revoked and reissued. Nevertheless, biometric systems are prone to a variety of attacks. Hence, providing security to this form is of prime importance. In our work, we propose a biometric cryptosystem which combines biometrics with cryptography by integrating palmprint biometric templates into cryptographic applications. The process consists of a number of steps starting with a user selected transformation to encrypt the data, followed by feature extraction procedure, and an error correction scheme to tolerate reasonable amount of intra-class variation. Experimental results show that this system can assure a higher security with a high entropy value, low correlation and a low Error rates.
DOI:10.1109/INTEE.2015.7416724