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Block - XOR based cancellable template protection scheme for multi-instance iris biometric system

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An iris recognition framework within the secured authentication infrastructure is an outstanding, reliable and broadly accepted biometric. It has been broadly perceived as one of the grounded biometrics credited to its high precision execution. But, the templates in traditional iris recognition systems are extremely susceptible to various attacks. Although a number of cancellable biometric methods had been proposed there is usually a trade-off with numerous overall performance and security parameters like FAR, FRR, EER, revocability, diversity and security. In this paper, a novel cancellable technique has been introduced, named as “Block-XOR Based Iris Fusion (BXBIF) template protection scheme”. The purpose of this non-invertible technique is to distort the biometric information so that an attacker may not be able to decrypt it. The experiments are performed on IITD database version 1.0 with an EER equal to 0.45 and GAR equal to 96.7%. The BXBIF technique shows a decent performance accuracy and also satisfies the requirements of cancellable biometrics namely revocability and irreversibility.

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Rafiq, S., Selwal, A. Block - XOR based cancellable template protection scheme for multi-instance iris biometric system. Multimed Tools Appl 81, 23217–23235 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-12655-z

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