Towards an Optimal Template Reduction for Securing Embedded Fingerprint Devices

Benoît Vibert, Christophe Charrier, Jean-Marie Le bars, Christophe Rosenberger

2018

Abstract

Template protection is an important issue in biometrics for security and privacy reasons. One solution for securing fingerprint data is to store it on a Secure Element (a microcircuit chipset such as a smartcard). An embedded On-Card-Comparison (OCC) module permits to compare two biometric templates and generates a similarity score. The biometric template is usually composed of minutiae extracted from the fingerprint image because a Secure element is limited in terms of memory and computation capabilities. For these reasons, a template reduction is necessary to quickly process fingerprint comparison. In this paper, we propose a new fingerprint template reduction scheme by approximating the optimal choice of minutiae with a genetic algorithm. We compared the proposed method with approaches from the literature using a fingerprint dataset and three matching algorithms. The experimental results show the benefit of the proposed method especially in order to estimate the optimal performance when reducing the fingerprint template given a number of minutiae to use.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Vibert B., Charrier C., Le bars J. and Rosenberger C. (2018). Towards an Optimal Template Reduction for Securing Embedded Fingerprint Devices.In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP, ISBN 978-989-758-282-0, pages 329-336. DOI: 10.5220/0006608903290336

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icissp18,
author={Benoît Vibert and Christophe Charrier and Jean-Marie Le bars and Christophe Rosenberger},
title={Towards an Optimal Template Reduction for Securing Embedded Fingerprint Devices},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,},
year={2018},
pages={329-336},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006608903290336},
isbn={978-989-758-282-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,
TI - Towards an Optimal Template Reduction for Securing Embedded Fingerprint Devices
SN - 978-989-758-282-0
AU - Vibert B.
AU - Charrier C.
AU - Le bars J.
AU - Rosenberger C.
PY - 2018
SP - 329
EP - 336
DO - 10.5220/0006608903290336