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2008 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition

DOI: 10.1109/icpr.2008.4761456

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Fake fingertip generation from a minutiae template

Proceedings article published in 2008 by Javier Galbally, Raffaele Cappelli, Alessandra Lumini, Davide Maltoni, Julian Fierrez ORCID
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Abstract

This work reports a preliminary study on the vulnerability evaluation of fingerprint verification systems to direct attacks carried out with fake fingertips created from minutiae templates. The attack is performed by presenting to the acquisition sensor a fake fingertip generated from an image reconstructed from a compromised minutiae-based template. Experiments carried out against a state-of-the-art fingerprint recognition algorithm show that the proposed attack scheme is definitely feasible and highlight a potential security threat in the use of non-encrypted minutiae-based templates.