A multilayer system to boost the robustness of fingerprint authentication against presentation attacks by fusion with heart-signal

Autor: Rami M. Jomaa, Md Saiful Islam, Hassan Mathkour, Saad Al-Ahmadi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences, Vol 34, Iss 8, Pp 5132-5143 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1319-1578
DOI: 10.1016/j.jksuci.2022.01.004
Popis: Vulnerability to presentation attacks (PAs) remains one of the main security concerns of the widely used fingerprint-based authentication systems, especially for unattended and remote applications. PAs can be carried out by presenting artifact, corpse, or conformant samples to a biometric sensor with the intention of circumventing the system policy. In this study, we develop a multilayer biometric authentication system robust against PAs by the fusion of fingerprint and heart-signal. In the first layer, artifact attacks are prevented by using a fine-tuned convolutional neural network (CNN). In the second layer, a lightweight CNN is used for the prevention of corpse attacks by using heart-signal (also known as ECG signal) with duration of 0.5 s. In the subsequent layers, robust fingerprint matcher at a specific threshold are utilized for the prevention of conformant attacks. In the final layer, a score-level fusion of the fingerprint and heart-signal is used for biometric authentication. The proposed system was evaluated by different authentication and attack scenarios using a multimodal dataset comprising two public databases of fingerprints and heart-signals available online. The experimental results yielded a false match rate (FMR) of approximately zero (0.1%) with an acceptable false non-match rate (FNMR). The obtained results are encouraging for the incorporation of the system into applications requiring high-security authentication.
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