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With the introduction of template protection techniques, privacy and security of biometric data have been enforced. Meeting the required properties of irreversibility, i.e. avoiding a reconstruction of original biometric features, and unlinkability among each other, template protection can enhance security of existing biometric systems in case tokens are stolen. However, with increasing resolution and number of enrolled users in biometric systems, means to compress biometric signals become an imminent need and practice, raising questions about the impact of image compression on recognition accuracy of template protection schemes, which are particularly sensitive to any sort of signal degradation. This paper addresses the important topic of iris-biometric fuzzy commitment schemes’ robustness with respect to compression noise. Experiments using a fuzzy commitment scheme indicate, that medium compression does not drastically effect key retrieval performance.
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Rathgeb, C., Uhl, A., Wild, P. (2013). Iris-Biometric Fuzzy Commitment Schemes under Image Compression. In: Ruiz-Shulcloper, J., Sanniti di Baja, G. (eds) Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications. CIARP 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8259. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41827-3_47
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