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Challenges Arising from Multi-Modal Biometric Template Security Schemes


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1 Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded, Maharashtra, India
 

Since the inception of Biometric authentication system in 1870, a wide variety of applications like Computer systems, laptops, mobile phones, ATM, access to buildings etc. are increasing in the 21st century. In the absence of such robust authentications systems, these systems are vulnerable to the wiles of an imposter. It is believed that the biometric authentication systems are the ultimate form of personal identification and encouraged because of convenience, high security etc. these are the solutions to the limitations of identity theft. Also biometric systems are safer, convenient, cost effective and cheaper to implement than traditional identification and verification systems.

The protection of Uni-modal or Multi-modal biometric templates is fundamental. In case of biometric data theft, an attacker can gain possession of a legal user's identity and this can have serious consequences like bank account fraud, unauthorized payments or receipts, privacy violations, etc. Furthermore, once stolen, is impossible to modify the individual traits to resolve the problem and reuse them; the biometric data become unusable.For such reasons, it's important to guarantee the protection of biometric characteristics to ensure security and privacy.However, the Template protection scheme may reduce the system's recognition performances, affecting the quality of the overall biometric authentication process.

Nonetheless, biometric system also have their own limitations, e.g. username , passwords, PIN, ID cards can be replaced or re-issued easily if they are compromised, which is not possible in case of individual's fingerprint, face, voice, retina etc. In this paper, an attempt is made to identify the challenges arising out of Multi-modal biometric template protection schemes.


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Multi-Biometric Systems, Multimodal Biometric, Biometric Template Security, Template Protection, Feature Transformation, Biometric Cryptosystems.
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Authors

Pratap P. Patil
Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded, Maharashtra, India
Sudhir B. Jagtap
Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded, Maharashtra, India

Abstract


Since the inception of Biometric authentication system in 1870, a wide variety of applications like Computer systems, laptops, mobile phones, ATM, access to buildings etc. are increasing in the 21st century. In the absence of such robust authentications systems, these systems are vulnerable to the wiles of an imposter. It is believed that the biometric authentication systems are the ultimate form of personal identification and encouraged because of convenience, high security etc. these are the solutions to the limitations of identity theft. Also biometric systems are safer, convenient, cost effective and cheaper to implement than traditional identification and verification systems.

The protection of Uni-modal or Multi-modal biometric templates is fundamental. In case of biometric data theft, an attacker can gain possession of a legal user's identity and this can have serious consequences like bank account fraud, unauthorized payments or receipts, privacy violations, etc. Furthermore, once stolen, is impossible to modify the individual traits to resolve the problem and reuse them; the biometric data become unusable.For such reasons, it's important to guarantee the protection of biometric characteristics to ensure security and privacy.However, the Template protection scheme may reduce the system's recognition performances, affecting the quality of the overall biometric authentication process.

Nonetheless, biometric system also have their own limitations, e.g. username , passwords, PIN, ID cards can be replaced or re-issued easily if they are compromised, which is not possible in case of individual's fingerprint, face, voice, retina etc. In this paper, an attempt is made to identify the challenges arising out of Multi-modal biometric template protection schemes.


Keywords


Multi-Biometric Systems, Multimodal Biometric, Biometric Template Security, Template Protection, Feature Transformation, Biometric Cryptosystems.

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