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Secure ear biometrics using circular kernel principal component analysis, Chebyshev transform hashing and Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem error-correcting codes

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Ear biometrics has generated an increased interest in the domain of biometric identification systems due to its robustness and covert acquisition potential. The external structure of the human ear has a bilateral symmetry structure. Here, we analyse ear biometrics based on ear symmetry features. We apply iterative closest point and kernel principal component analysis with circular kernel for feature extraction while using a circular kernel function, combined with empirical mode decomposition into intrinsic mode functions perceptual hashing using and fast Chebyshev transform, and a secure authentication approach that exploits the discrete logarithm problem and Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem error-correcting codes to generate 128-bit crypto keys. We evaluate the proposed ear biometric cryptosecurity system using our data set of ear images acquired from 103 persons. Our results show that the ear biometric-based authentication achieved an equal error rate of 0.13 and true positive rate TPR of 0.85.

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  1. Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Nigeria

    L. Olanrewaju & Oyediran Oyebiyi

  2. Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey

    Sanjay Misra

  3. Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  4. Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

    Rytis Maskeliunas & Robertas Damasevicius

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Olanrewaju, L., Oyebiyi, O., Misra, S. et al. Secure ear biometrics using circular kernel principal component analysis, Chebyshev transform hashing and Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem error-correcting codes. SIViP 14, 847–855 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-019-01609-y

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