Can Fingerprints be Reconstructed from ISO Templates?

Author

Cappelli, R. ; Lumini, A. ; Maio, D. ; Maltoni, D.

Author_Institution

Biometric Syst. Lab., Bologna Univ., Cesena

fYear

2006

fDate

5-8 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

For a long time it has been assumed that a minutiae-based fingerprint template did not contain enough information to allow reconstructing the original fingerprint image. This work proposes an approach to reconstruct fingerprint images from ISO standard templates and investigates to what extent the reconstructed fingerprints are similar to the original ones. The results show that the reconstructed images have a very good quality and may be used to attack existing fingerprint recognition systems. Systematic studies to understand the success chances of such attacks are currently being carried out

Keywords

feature extraction; fingerprint identification; image reconstruction; ISO standard template; biometric systems; fingerprint image reconstruction; fingerprint recognition system; minutiae; minutiae-based fingerprint template; Biometrics; Fingerprint recognition; Fingers; IEC standards; ISO standards; Image matching; Image recognition; Image reconstruction; Laboratories; Uniform resource locators; Biometric systems; ISO/IEC 19794-2 fingerprint standard template; fingerprint reconstruction; minutiae; security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, 2006. ICARCV '06. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0341-3

Electronic_ISBN

1-4214-042-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICARCV.2006.345478

Filename

4150407