Identities, forgeries and disguises

  • Authors:
  • Gerard Chollet;Patrick Perrot;Walid Karam;Chafic Mokbel;Sanjay Kanade;Dijana Petrovska-Delacret

  • Affiliations:
  • CNRS-LTCI, Telecom ParisTech, 46 Rue Barrault, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France.;CNRS-LTCI, Telecom ParisTech, 46 Rue Barrault, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France.;Departments of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Balamand, Al-Kurah, Lebanon.;Departments of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Balamand, Al-Kurah, Lebanon.;Institut Telecom, Telecom SudParis, 9 Rue Charles Fourier, 91011 Evry Cedex, France.;Institut Telecom, Telecom SudParis, 9 Rue Charles Fourier, 91011 Evry Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Information Technology and Management
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The preservation of your identity could become a major concern. In many situations, you need to claim an identity and this claim needs to be verified somehow. The technology called biometrics may help. But, what if a deliberate impostor claims your identity? Will this forgery be always detected? Biometric identity verification is imperfect. This paper reviews some of the techniques that a deliberate impostor could use to defeat a biometric verification system. It focuses on audio-visual forgeries using voice conversion and face animation. It also describes identity disguise as a means of falsifying and concealing one|s identity. The recovery of an identity and cancellable biometrics are also useful techniques to protect from identity theft. Such techniques could also find useful applications in multimedia.