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A hierarchical fingerprint alignment method and its application to fuzzy vault

  • Peng Li
  • , Xin Yang
  • , Yali Zang
  • , Kai Cao
  • , Jie Tian*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • CAS - Institute of Automation
  • Xidian University

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Abstract

Fuzzy vault is a practical and promising scheme, which can protect biometric templates and perform secure key management simultaneously. Aligning the query sample and the template sample in the encrypted domain remains a challenging task in the fingerprint-based fuzzy vault scheme. To some extent, all the existing fingerprint aligning methods in the encrypted domain have their own drawbacks, e.g., not enough alignment accuracy or information leakage because of publishing helper data. In this paper, a novel fingerprint aligning method is proposed, which integrates the fingerprint reference points and its neighboring region of interest(ROI) in a hierarchical manner. The concept of mutual information(MI) in the information theory is used to assess the coincidence extent of two fingerprints after being aligned. The novel alignment method is applied to fingerprint-based fuzzy vault implementation. Out of information leakage consideration, the orientation features of fingerprint minutiae are discarded and another distinguishing local feature, inter-minutiae ridge count, is used to replace the minutiae orientation in the implementation of fingerprint-based fuzzy vault. Experiment on FVC2002 DB2a is conducted to show the virtue of proposed alignment method and the promising performance of proposed fingerprint-based fuzzy vault implementation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBiometric Technology for Human Identification VII
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
EventBiometric Technology for Human Identification VII - Orlando, FL, United States
Duration: 5 Apr 20106 Apr 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume7667
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Conference

ConferenceBiometric Technology for Human Identification VII
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando, FL
Period5/04/106/04/10

Keywords

  • Fingerprint alignment
  • Fuzzy vault
  • Mutual information
  • OFROI
  • Ridge count

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