Security and Accuracy of Fingerprint-Based Biometrics: A Review

Biometric systems are increasingly replacing traditional password- and token-based authentication systems. Security and recognition accuracy are the two most important aspects to consider in designing a biometric system. In this paper, a comprehensive review is presented to shed light on the latest...

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Published in:Symmetry (Basel) 2019-02, Vol.11 (2), p.141
Main Authors: Yang, Wencheng, Wang, Song, Hu, Jiankun, Zheng, Guanglou, Valli, Craig
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
Biometrics
Boundaries
Financial services
Fingerprinting
Fingerprints
latent fingerprint
Law enforcement
Passwords
Recognition
recognition accuracy
Security
Security management
Sensors
Smartphones
Systems design
template protection
User interface
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Summary:Biometric systems are increasingly replacing traditional password- and token-based authentication systems. Security and recognition accuracy are the two most important aspects to consider in designing a biometric system. In this paper, a comprehensive review is presented to shed light on the latest developments in the study of fingerprint-based biometrics covering these two aspects with a view to improving system security and recognition accuracy. Based on a thorough analysis and discussion, limitations of existing research work are outlined and suggestions for future work are provided. It is shown in the paper that researchers continue to face challenges in tackling the two most critical attacks to biometric systems, namely, attacks to the user interface and template databases. How to design proper countermeasures to thwart these attacks, thereby providing strong security and yet at the same time maintaining high recognition accuracy, is a hot research topic currently, as well as in the foreseeable future. Moreover, recognition accuracy under non-ideal conditions is more likely to be unsatisfactory and thus needs particular attention in biometric system design. Related challenges and current research trends are also outlined in this paper.
ISSN:2073-8994
2073-8994
DOI:10.3390/sym11020141