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A preliminary study on identifying fabrication material from fake fingerprint images

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Abstract

Existing studies suggest the vulnerability of fingerprint verification system against spoof attacks. A spoofing attack occurs when an adversary mimics the biometric trait of another individual for illegitimate access and advantages. Liveness detection algorithms aim to detect live fingerprint samples from the fake artifact. A variety of materials, such as latex, gelatine and silicone, can be used to fabricate fake fingerprint samples. Continuous advancement in the spoofing techniques will lead to the introduction of new materials for fake fingerprint fabrication. However, the performance of these liveness detection algorithms severely degrade when new spoof materials are encountered during the operational stage. Therefore, there is a need for automatic detection of the fabrication material from fake fingerprint images. To this aim, this work investigates texture descriptors such as LBP, BSIF, BGP and GLCM for automatic detection of the fabrication material from fake fingerprint images.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages362-366
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781479975600
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
EventIEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2015 - Cape Town, South Africa
Duration: Dec 8 2015Dec 10 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2015

Conference

ConferenceIEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2015
Country/TerritorySouth Africa
CityCape Town
Period12/8/1512/10/15

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