Fingerprint template protection with minutiae-based bit-string for security and privacy preserving

  • Authors:

  • Zhe Jin;Andrew Beng Jin Teoh;Thian Song Ong;Connie Tee

  • Affiliations:

  • Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Multimedia University, Melaka 75450, Malaysia;School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Engineering College, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, South Korea and Predictive Intelligence Research Cluste, Sunway University, Bandar Sunway, P ...;Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Multimedia University, Melaka 75450, Malaysia;Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Multimedia University, Melaka 75450, Malaysia

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Recently, biometric template protection has received great attention from the research community due to the security and privacy concerns for biometric template. Although a number of biometric template protection methods have been reported, it is still a challenging task to devise a scheme which satisfies all of the four template protection criteria namely diversity, revocability, non-invertibility and performance. In this paper, a method is proposed to generate a revocable fingerprint template in terms of bit-string from a set of minutiae points via a polar grid based 3-tuple quantization technique. Two merits of the proposed method are outlined, namely alignment-free and performance. Four publicly available benchmark datasets: FVC2002 DB1, DB2 and FVC2004 DB1, DB2 are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed method. Besides, the diversity, revocability, non-invertibility criteria are also analyzed.