On the Vulnerability of Fingerprint Verification Systems to Fake Fingerprints Attacks

Author

Galbally-Herrero, J. ; Fierrez-Aguilar, J. ; Rodriguez-Gonzalez, J.D. ; Alonso-Fernandez, Fernando ; Ortega-Garcia, Javier ; Tapiador, M.

Author_Institution

Escuela Politecnica Superior, Univ. Autonoma de Madrid

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

130

Lastpage

136

Abstract

A new method to generate gummy fingers is presented. A medium-size fake fingerprint database is described and two different fingerprint verification systems are evaluated on it. Three different scenarios are considered in the experiments, namely: enrollment and test with real fingerprints, enrollment and test with fake fingerprints, and enrollment with real fingerprints and test with fake fingerprints. Results for optical and thermal sweeping sensors are given. Both systems are shown to be vulnerable to direct attacks

Keywords

fingerprint identification; optical sensors; security of data; direct attacks; fake fingerprint database; fake fingerprints attacks; fingerprint verification systems; gummy fingers; optical sensor; thermal sweeping sensor; Biomedical optical imaging; Biometrics; Databases; Fingerprint recognition; Fingers; HDTV; Optical sensors; Performance evaluation; System testing; Thermal sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Carnahan Conferences Security Technology, Proceedings 2006 40th Annual IEEE International

Conference_Location

Lexington, KY

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0174-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCST.2006.313441

Filename

4105328