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An Introduction to Vein Presentation Attacks and Detection

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Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing

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Abstract

The domain of presentation attacks (PAs), including vulnerability studies and detection (PAD), remains very much unexplored by available scientific literature in biometric vein recognition. Contrary to other modalities that use visual spectral sensors for capturing biometric samples, vein biometrics is typically implemented with near-infrared imaging. The use of invisible light spectra challenges the creation of instruments, but does not render it impossible. In this chapter, we provide an overview of current landscape for PA manufacturing in possible attack vectors for vein recognition, describe existing public databases and baseline techniques to counter such attacks. The reader will also find material to reproduce experiments and findings for finger vein recognition systems. We provide this material with the hope that it will be extended to other vein recognition systems and improved in time.

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Notes

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    https://www.idiap.ch/dataset/fvspoofingattack.

  2. 2.

    https://www.idiap.ch/dataset/vera-fingervein.

  3. 3.

    https://www.idiap.ch/dataset/vera-spoofingpalmvein.

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    https://www.idiap.ch/dataset/vera-palmvein.

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    Source code and results: https://pypi.org/project/bob.hobpad2.veins.

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    https://pypi.org/project/bob.bio.veins.

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    https://pypi.org/project/bob.bio.base.

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    https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bob.pad.vein.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the Swiss Centre for Biometrics Research and Testing and the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI) for supporting the research leading to some of results published in this book chapter.

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    André Anjos & Sébastien Marcel

  2. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Pedro Tome

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  1. Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland

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  2. University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

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  3. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Julian Fierrez

  4. EURECOM, Biot Sophia Antipolis, France

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Anjos, A., Tome, P., Marcel, S. (2019). An Introduction to Vein Presentation Attacks and Detection. In: Marcel, S., Nixon, M., Fierrez, J., Evans, N. (eds) Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing. Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92627-8_18

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