Biometric Systems Interaction Assessment: The State of the Art

Ramon Blanco-Gonzalo; Oscar Miguel-Hurtado; Chiara Lunerti; Richard M. Guest; Barbara Corsetti; Elakkiya Ellavarason; Raul Sanchez-Reillo

doi:10.1109/thms.2019.2913672

A Systematic Empirical Analysis of Forging Fingerprints to Fool Biometric Systems

Developing and Evaluating Security-Aware Software Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-2482-5.ch014 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 240-284

Author(s):

Christian Schwarzl ◽

Edgar Weippl

Keyword(s):

Empirical Analysis ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Single Step ◽

The State ◽

Biometric Systems

This paper serves to systematically describe the attempts made to forge fingerprints to fool biometric systems and to review all relevant publications on forging fingerprints to fool sensors. The research finds that many of the related works fail in this aspect and that past successes could not be repeated. First, the basics of biometrics are explained in order to define the meaning of the term security in this special context. Next, the state of the art of biometric systems is presented, followed by to the topic of security of fingerprint scanners. For this, a series of more than 30,000 experiments were conducted to fool scanners. The authors were able to reproduce and keep records of each single step in the test and to show which methods lead to the desired results. Most studies on this topic exclude a number of steps in producing a fake finger and fooling a fingerprint scanner are not explained, which means that some of the studies cannot be replicated. In addition, the authors’ own ideas and slight variations of existing experiment set-ups are presented.

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A Review on Contactless Hand Verification Systems

International Journal of Scientific Research in Science Engineering and Technology ◽

10.32628/ijsrset218121 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 126-136

Author(s):

Santa Maria Shithil ◽

Mashiwat Tabassum Waishy ◽

Lomat Haider Chowdhury

Keyword(s):

Convenient Method ◽

State Of The Art ◽

The State ◽

Biometric System ◽

Individual Person ◽

Biometric Systems ◽

Hand Biometrics ◽

Verification Systems ◽

Biometric Information ◽

Sophisticated Technology

Biometric system is gaining popularity increasingly since it provides the most sophisticated technology for authentication, verification, and identification. This technology can identify each individual person on the basis of their biometric information such as their face, hand features, signatures, DNA, or iris pattern and thus can impart a secure and convenient method for authentication purposes. Hand biometrics is one of the most widely used biometric systems. There are two approaches for capturing hand biometrics: contact-based and contactless. In this paper, we present a thorough review of the state of the art contactless hand verification systems. We also present the various modules of the general contactless hand verification system and analyze various hand biometrics features.

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A Systematic Empirical Analysis of Forging Fingerprints to Fool Biometric Systems

International Journal of Secure Software Engineering ◽

10.4018/jsse.2011010103 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 40-83

Author(s):

Christian Schwarzl ◽

Edgar Weippl

Keyword(s):

Empirical Analysis ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Single Step ◽

The State ◽

Biometric Systems

This paper serves to systematically describe the attempts made to forge fingerprints to fool biometric systems and to review all relevant publications on forging fingerprints to fool sensors. The research finds that many of the related works fail in this aspect and that past successes could not be repeated. First, the basics of biometrics are explained in order to define the meaning of the term security in this special context. Next, the state of the art of biometric systems is presented, followed by to the topic of security of fingerprint scanners. For this, a series of more than 30,000 experiments were conducted to fool scanners. The authors were able to reproduce and keep records of each single step in the test and to show which methods lead to the desired results. Most studies on this topic exclude a number of steps in producing a fake finger and fooling a fingerprint scanner are not explained, which means that some of the studies cannot be replicated. In addition, the authors’ own ideas and slight variations of existing experiment set-ups are presented.

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Practical Picture Processing

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100051700 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 32 ◽

pp. 338-339

Author(s):

T. A. Welton

Keyword(s):

Radiation Damage ◽

Coherence Length ◽

Spatial Information ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Coherent Radiation ◽

The State ◽

Energy Spread ◽

Electron Micrograph ◽

Picture Processing ◽

Molecular Skeleton

Various authors have emphasized the spatial information resident in an electron micrograph taken with adequately coherent radiation. In view of the completion of at least one such instrument, this opportunity is taken to summarize the state of the art of processing such micrographs. We use the usual symbols for the aberration coefficients, and supplement these with £ and 6 for the transverse coherence length and the fractional energy spread respectively. He also assume a weak, biologically interesting sample, with principal interest lying in the molecular skeleton remaining after obvious hydrogen loss and other radiation damage has occurred.

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