Title
Biometric template protection in multimodal authentication systems based on error correcting codes
Abstract
The widespread deployment of biometric systems has raised public concern about security and privacy of personal data. In this paper, we present a novel framework for biometric template security in multimodal biometric authentication systems based on error correcting codes. Biometric recognition is formulated as a channel coding problem with noisy side information at the decoder based on distributed source coding principles. It is shown that the proposed method binds the biometric template in a cryptographic key which does not reveal any information about the original biometric data even if it is compromised by an attacker. Furthermore, the advantages of the proposed method in terms of security and impact on matching accuracy are discussed. We assess the performance of the proposed method in the context of HUMABIO, an EU Specific Targeted Research Project, where face and gait biometrics are employed in an unobtrusive application scenario for human authentication. Experimental evaluation on a multimodal biometric database demonstrates the validity of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.3233/JCS-2010-0369
Journal of Computer Security
Keywords
Field
DocType
original biometric data,biometric template security,biometric template,noisy side information,multimodal biometric database,personal data,multimodal authentication system,multimodal biometric authentication system,biometric template protection,biometric system,human authentication,authentication,error correction code,distributed source coding
Channel code,Data mining,Software deployment,Authentication,Computer science,Side information,Distributed source coding,Biometrics,Biometric data,Key (cryptography)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
1
0926-227X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
24
Authors
7