A reliable biometric system, which is essentially a pattern-recognition that recognizes a person based on physiological or behavioral characteristic [1], is an indispensable element in several areas, including ecommerce(e.g. online banking), various forms of access control security(e.g. PC login), and so on. Nowadays, security has been important for privacy protection and country in many situat...

A biometric authentication system operates by acquiring biometric data from a user and comparing it against the template data stored in a database in order to identify a person or to verify a claimed identity. Most systems store multiple templates per user to account for variations in a person’s biometric data. In this paper we propose two techniques to automatically select prototype fingerprin...

Multimodal biometric systems have proven more efficient in personal verification or identification than single biometric ones, so it is also a focus of this paper. Particularly, in the paper, the authors present a multimodal biometric system in which features from face and fingerprint images are extracted using Zernike Moment (ZM), the personal authentication is done using Relevance Vector Mach...

Recently, biometric systems have attracted the attention of both academic and industrial communities. Advances in hardware and software technologies have paved the way to such growing interest. Nowadays, efficient and cost-effective biometric solutions are continuously emerging. Fingerprint-based biometric systems have emerged as pioneering commercial applications of biometric systems. Face and...

We study in this work the potential side channel leakages of a hardware biometric comparison system that has been designed for fingerprints. An embedded biometric system for comparison aims at comparing a stored biometric data with a freshly acquired one without the need to send the stored biometric data outside the system. Here one may try to retrieve the stored data via side channel, similarl...

Biometric Authentication systems adopt a suitable image processing technique to manipulate the biometric images. It refers to verifying a person using their biometric traits that includes physiological, biological and/or behavioral traits like iris, face, fingerprint, voice, hand writing etc. , A biometric characteristic should be unique, universal, permanent and acceptable. In this work, the t...

A fingerprint authentication system for the privacy protection of the virtual identity is introduced. By extracting minutiae points from one fingerprint, orientation from other fingerprint and reference points from both the fingerprints, a new biometric authentication framework is proposed for identifying an individual. With the help of these three combined features a new virtual identity is ge...

This paper proposes combining the biometric fractal pattern and particle swarm optimization PSO -based classifier for fingerprint recognition. Fingerprints have arch, loop, whorl, and accidental morphologies, and embed singular points, resulting in the establishment of fingerprint individuality. An automatic fingerprint identification system consists of two stages: digital image processing DIP ...

Human users find difficult to remember long cryptographic keys. Therefore, researchers, for a long time period, have been investigating ways to use biometric features of the user rather than memorable password or passphrase, in an attempt to produce tough and repeatable cryptographic keys. Our goal is to integrate the volatility of the user's biometric features into the generated key, so as to ...

It is well-known that in any biometric systems the quality of the input data has a strong impact on the accuracy that the system may provide. The quality of the input depends on several factors, such as: the quality of the acquisition device, the intrinsic quality of the biometric trait, the current conditions of the biometric trait, the environment, the correctness of user interaction with the...