• DocumentCode
    2501000
  • Title

    Attacking Iris Recognition: An Efficient Hill-Climbing Technique

  • Author

    Rathgeb, Christian ; Uhl, Andreas

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    23-26 Aug. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1217
  • Lastpage
    1220
  • Abstract
    In this paper we propose a modified hill-climbing attack to iris biometric systems. Applying our technique we are able to effectively gain access to iris biometric systems at very low effort. Furthermore, we demonstrate that reconstructing approximations of original iris images is highly non-trivial.
  • Keywords
    iris recognition; search problems; hill-climbing attack; hill-climbing technique; iris biometric systems; iris recognition; Approximation algorithms; Approximation methods; Feature extraction; Image reconstruction; Iris; Iris recognition; Pixel; Biometrics; Hill-Climbing Attack; Iris Recognition;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2010 20th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Istanbul
  • ISSN
    1051-4651
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7542-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICPR.2010.303
  • Filename
    5597084