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Comprehensive survey on cancelable biometrics with novel case study on finger dorsal template protection

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In order to use biometric based authentication in banking domain, it is vital to secure biometric databases from unauthorized access. As we all know a biometric trait is immutable, thus if it is stolen it is lost forever. Therefore, securing biometric databases is a paramount concern in today’s digital World. In this paper, we have presented a comprehensive study of biometric template protection schemes majorly focusing on cancelable biometric techniques. Moreover, we have proposed a cancelable finger dorsal template generation network trained on trait specific features without using any pre-trained network framework. The highly discriminative features learned from our network are further hashed using BioHashing technique to generate cancelable finger dorsal templates. The experimental results are evaluated on two benchmark publicly available finger knuckle databases: PolyU FKP and PolyU Contactless FKI. We have also performed in depth security analysis of the proposed framework in terms of invertibility, revocability and unlinkability.

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    Avantika Singh & Aditya Nigam

  2. Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, Dharwad, Karnataka, India

    Ashish Arora

  3. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India

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Singh, A., Arora, A., Jaswal, G. et al. Comprehensive survey on cancelable biometrics with novel case study on finger dorsal template protection. J BANK FINANC TECHNOL 4, 37–52 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42786-020-00016-z

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