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MinuCode: A Fixed-Value Representation of Fingerprint Minutiae for Biometric Cryptosystem

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Advances in Information Security and Assurance (ISA 2009)

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This paper proposes a new fingerprint verification algorithm, MinuCode, which represents minutiae information in fixed values that can tolerate distortions during different fingerprint image scanning processes. The fixed-value representations of minutiae make MinuCode a most suitable candidate to serve as a basis for fingerprint biometric cryptographic systems. To deal with the fingerprint translation, rotation and non-linear distortion, MinuCode first utilizes a minutiae-centered encoding mechanism which eliminates the need for reference core point determination, and quantizes the location relationship between each pair of minutiae to a fixed value. Furthermore, missing or additional spurious minutiae are handled with a threshold-based matching algorithm. Experimental results on the public domain database showed the MinuCode scheme can achieve recognition accuracy similar to the basic method of traditional fingerprint recognition. Thus, together with the fixed-value representations of minutiae, MinuCode is a most suitable and practical fingerprint matching scheme for supporting fingerprint-based biometric cryptosystem.

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  1. Key Laboratory for Information System Security, Ministry of Education Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P.R. China

    Jinyang Shi & Kwok-Yan Lam

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  1. Computer Engineering Department, Kyungnam University, 449, Wolyong-dong, 631-701, Kyungnam, Masan, Korea

    Jong Hyuk Park

  2. Institute of Communications Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

    Hsiao-Hwa Chen

  3. School of Computer Science,, University of Oklahoma, 200 Felgar Street, 73019, P.O. Box, Norman, OK, USA

    Mohammed Atiquzzaman

  4. School of Computer Engineering, Hanshin University, Kyeong-Gi, Osan, Korea

    Changhoon Lee

  5. Division of Multimedia, Hannam University, Daejeon, Korea

    Tai-hoon Kim

  6. Division of Computer Engineering, Mokwon University, Daejeon, Korea

    Sang-Soo Yeo

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Shi, J., Lam, KY. (2009). MinuCode: A Fixed-Value Representation of Fingerprint Minutiae for Biometric Cryptosystem. In: Park, J.H., Chen, HH., Atiquzzaman, M., Lee, C., Kim, Th., Yeo, SS. (eds) Advances in Information Security and Assurance. ISA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5576. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02617-1_39

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