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Towards fingerprints as strings: Secure indexing for fingerprint matching

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Abstract

This work, for the first time, combines fingerprint matching, security, and indexing in one system. We use the fuzzy vault construct with minutia path information to achieve this. Since we only store translation and rotation invariant information from the paths, we achieve pre-alignment for 'free,' which is a requirement of the fuzzy vault. We introduce a hash table that allows indexing to be used with our system, which effectively reduces the search space of the database. Our system is secure in the sense that if the database is compromised, it will be computationally infeasible for the intruder to recover the enrolled fingerprint templates.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2013 International Conference on Biometrics, ICB 2013
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Print)9781479903108
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event6th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics, ICB 2013 - Madrid, Spain
Duration: Jun 4 2013Jun 7 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2013 International Conference on Biometrics, ICB 2013

Conference

Conference6th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics, ICB 2013
Country/TerritorySpain
CityMadrid
Period06/4/1306/7/13

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