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Presentation Attacks in Signature Biometrics: Types and Introduction to Attack Detection

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Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing

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Authentication applications based on the use of biometric methods have received a lot of interest during the last years due to the breathtaking results obtained using personal traits such as face or fingerprint. However, it is important not to forget that these biometric systems have to withstand different types of possible attacks. This work carries out an analysis of different Presentation Attack (PA) scenarios for on-line handwritten signature verification. The main contributions of the present work are: (1) short overview of representative methods for Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) in signature biometrics; (2) to describe the different levels of PAs existing in on-line signature verification regarding the amount of information available to the attacker, as well as the training, effort and ability to perform the forgeries; and (3) to report an evaluation of the system performance in signature biometrics under different PAs and writing tools considering freely available signature databases. Results obtained for both BiosecurID and e-BioSign databases show the high impact on the system performance regarding not only the level of information that the attacker has but also the training and effort performing the signature. This work is in line with recent efforts in the Common Criteria standardization community towards security evaluation of biometric systems, where attacks are rated depending on, among other factors, time spent, effort and expertise of the attacker, as well as the information available and used from the target being attacked.

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This work has been supported by projects: Bio-Guard (Ayudas Fundación BBVA a Equipos de Investigación Científica 2017), UAM-CecaBank, and by TEC2015-70627-R (MINECO/FEDER). Ruben Tolosana is supported by a FPU Fellowship from the Spanish MECD.

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    Ruben Tolosana, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez & Javier Ortega-Garcia

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Tolosana, R., Vera-Rodriguez, R., Fierrez, J., Ortega-Garcia, J. (2019). Presentation Attacks in Signature Biometrics: Types and Introduction to Attack 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_19

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