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Cancelable Biometrics

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Revocable biometrics

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Cancelable biometrics are designed to allow an individual to enroll and revoke a large number of different biometric samples. Each biometric image is encoded with a distortion scheme that varies for each application. The concept was developed to address the privacy and security concerns that biometric samples are limited and must be used for multiple applications. During enrollment, the input biometric image is subjected to a known distortion controlled by a set of parameters. The distorted biometric sample can, in some schemes, be processed with standard biometrics algorithms, which are unaware that the features presented to them are distorted. During matching, the live biometric sample must be distorted with the same parameters, which must be securly stored. The cancelable nature of this scheme is provided by the distortion, in that it is not the user’s “actual” biometric that is stored, but simply one of an arbitrarily large number of possible...

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  1. Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Andy Adler

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  1. Center for Biometrics and Security Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Stan Z. Li (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Departments of Computer Science & Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Anil Jain (Professor) (Professor)

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Adler, A. (2009). Cancelable Biometrics. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73003-5_66

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