Title
On The Effectiveness Of Impedance-Based Fingerprint Presentation Attack Detection
Abstract
Within the last few decades, the need for subject authentication has grown steadily, and biometric recognition technology has been established as a reliable alternative to passwords and tokens, offering automatic decisions. However, as unsupervised processes, biometric systems are vulnerable to presentation attacks targeting the capture devices, where presentation attack instruments (PAI) instead of bona fide characteristics are presented. Due to the capture devices being exposed to the public, any person could potentially execute such attacks. In this work, a fingerprint capture device based on thin film transistor (TFT) technology has been modified to additionally acquire the impedances of the presented fingers. Since the conductance of human skin differs from artificial PAIs, those impedance values were used to train a presentation attack detection (PAD) algorithm. Based on a dataset comprising 42 different PAI species, the results showed remarkable performance in detecting most attack presentations with an APCER = 2.89% in a user-friendly scenario specified by a BPCER = 0.2%. However, additional experiments utilising unknown attacks revealed a weakness towards particular PAI species.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.3390/s21175686
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
fingerprint recognition, presentation attack detection, impedance measurement, unknown attacks
Journal
21
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
17
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jascha Kolberg162.80
Daniel Gläsner200.34
Ralph Breithaupt300.34
Marta Gomez-Barrero421524.34
Jörg Reinhold500.34
Arndt von Twickel600.34
Christoph Busch778880.29