Fingerprint Liveness Detection in the Presence of Capable Intruders
Fingerprint liveness detection methods have been developed as an attempt to overcome the vulnerability of fingerprint biometric systems to spoofing attacks. Traditional approaches have been quite optimistic about the behavior of the intruder assuming the use of a previously known material. This assu...
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| author | Ana F. Sequeira Jaime S. Cardoso |
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| description | Fingerprint liveness detection methods have been developed as an attempt to overcome the vulnerability of fingerprint biometric systems to spoofing attacks. Traditional approaches have been quite optimistic about the behavior of the intruder assuming the use of a previously known material. This assumption has led to the use of supervised techniques to estimate the performance of the methods, using both live and spoof samples to train the predictive models and evaluate each type of fake samples individually. Additionally, the background was often included in the sample representation, completely distorting the decision process. Therefore, we propose that an automatic segmentation step should be performed to isolate the fingerprint from the background and truly decide on the liveness of the fingerprint and not on the characteristics of the background. Also, we argue that one cannot aim to model the fake samples completely since the material used by the intruder is unknown beforehand. We approach the design by modeling the distribution of the live samples and predicting as fake the samples very unlikely according to that model. Our experiments compare the performance of the supervised approaches with the semi-supervised ones that rely solely on the live samples. The results obtained differ from the ones obtained by the more standard approaches which reinforces our conviction that the results in the literature are misleadingly estimating the true vulnerability of the biometric system. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-22c747c07d4e463a8f76ce373cecec952022-12-22T04:24:57ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202015-06-01156146151463810.3390/s150614615s150614615Fingerprint Liveness Detection in the Presence of Capable IntrudersAna F. Sequeira0Jaime S. Cardoso1INESC TEC—INESC Technology and Science, Campus da FEUP, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, Porto 4200-465, PortugalINESC TEC—INESC Technology and Science, Campus da FEUP, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, Porto 4200-465, PortugalFingerprint liveness detection methods have been developed as an attempt to overcome the vulnerability of fingerprint biometric systems to spoofing attacks. Traditional approaches have been quite optimistic about the behavior of the intruder assuming the use of a previously known material. This assumption has led to the use of supervised techniques to estimate the performance of the methods, using both live and spoof samples to train the predictive models and evaluate each type of fake samples individually. Additionally, the background was often included in the sample representation, completely distorting the decision process. Therefore, we propose that an automatic segmentation step should be performed to isolate the fingerprint from the background and truly decide on the liveness of the fingerprint and not on the characteristics of the background. Also, we argue that one cannot aim to model the fake samples completely since the material used by the intruder is unknown beforehand. We approach the design by modeling the distribution of the live samples and predicting as fake the samples very unlikely according to that model. Our experiments compare the performance of the supervised approaches with the semi-supervised ones that rely solely on the live samples. The results obtained differ from the ones obtained by the more standard approaches which reinforces our conviction that the results in the literature are misleadingly estimating the true vulnerability of the biometric system.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/15/6/14615biometricsliveness detectionfingerprintsupervised classificationsemi-supervised classification |
| spellingShingle | Ana F. Sequeira Jaime S. Cardoso Fingerprint Liveness Detection in the Presence of Capable Intruders Sensors biometrics liveness detection fingerprint supervised classification semi-supervised classification |
| title | Fingerprint Liveness Detection in the Presence of Capable Intruders |
| title_full | Fingerprint Liveness Detection in the Presence of Capable Intruders |
| title_fullStr | Fingerprint Liveness Detection in the Presence of Capable Intruders |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fingerprint Liveness Detection in the Presence of Capable Intruders |
| title_short | Fingerprint Liveness Detection in the Presence of Capable Intruders |
| title_sort | fingerprint liveness detection in the presence of capable intruders |
| topic | biometrics liveness detection fingerprint supervised classification semi-supervised classification |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/15/6/14615 |
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