EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Personal verification based on extraction and characterisation of retinal feature points
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
Palm-print recognition by matrix discriminator
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
FM Model Based Fingerprint Reconstruction from Minutiae Template
ICB '09 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advances in Biometrics
Retinal verification using a feature points-based biometric pattern
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing - Special issue on recent advances in biometric systems: a signal processing perspective
Descriptors for image-based fingerprint matchers
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Biometric cryptosystem using function based on-line signature recognition
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Multibiometric cryptosystem: model structure and performance analysis
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security - Special issue on electronic voting
An evaluation of direct attacks using fake fingers generated from ISO templates
Pattern Recognition Letters
A hybrid biometric cryptosystem for securing fingerprint minutiae templates
Pattern Recognition Letters
Cancelable fingerprint templates using minutiae-based bit-strings
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Cancelable templates for sequence-based biometrics with application to on-line signature recognition
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans - Special issue on recent advances in biometrics
Multi-factor biometrics for authentication: a false sense of security
Proceedings of the 12th ACM workshop on Multimedia and security
Security analysis of a fingerprint-protected USB drive
Proceedings of the 26th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
Eigen-model projections for protected on-line signature recognition
BioID'11 Proceedings of the COST 2101 European conference on Biometrics and ID management
Pair-polar coordinate-based cancelable fingerprint templates
Pattern Recognition
An evaluation of indirect attacks and countermeasures in fingerprint verification systems
Pattern Recognition Letters
ICEB'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Ethics and Policy of Biometrics and International Data Sharing
Non-invertible and revocable iris templates using key-dependent wavelet transforms
Proceedings of the first ACM workshop on Information hiding and multimedia security
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
A novel hand reconstruction approach and its application to vulnerability assessment
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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A minutiae-based template is a very compact representation of a fingerprint image, and for a long time, it has been assumed that it did not contain enough information to allow the reconstruction of the original fingerprint. This work proposes a novel approach to reconstruct fingerprint images from standard templates and investigates to what extent the reconstructed images are similar to the original ones (that is, those the templates were extracted from). The efficacy of the reconstruction technique has been assessed by estimating the success chances of a masquerade attack against nine different fingerprint recognition algorithms. The experimental results show that the reconstructed images are very realistic and that, although it is unlikely that they can fool a human expert, there is a high chance to deceive state-of-the-art commercial fingerprint recognition systems.