基于比特流的虹膜特征数据的隐藏算法

对生物特征数据的攻击是生物特征识别自身安全的主要威胁。为了提高虹膜特征数据的安全性,根据现有主要的虹膜识别方法中特征模板的数据特性和基于汉明距的比对方法,提出一种基于比特流的将虹膜特征模板数据嵌入人脸图像的数据隐藏算法。实验结果表明,该算法具有较强的隐蔽性,隐藏算法本身误码率为零,计算效率高,不会影响虹膜识别技术本身的性能,能够有效保护特征模板数据,增强虹膜识别系统自身的安全性。     

Multi-instance cancellable biometrics schemes based on generative adversarial network

The main role of cancellable biometric schemes is to protect the privacy of the enrolled users. The protected biometric data are generated by applying a parametrized transformation function to the original biometric data. Although cancellable biometric schemes achieve high security levels, they may degrade the recognition accuracy. One of the mostwidely used approaches to enhance the recognition accuracy in biometric systems is to combine several instances of the same biometric modality. In this paper, two multi-instance cancellable biometric schemes based on iris traits are presented. The iris biometric trait is used in both schemes because of the reliability and stability of iris traits compared to the other biometric traits. A generative adversarial network (GAN) is used as a transformation function for the biometric features. The first scheme is based on a pre-transformation feature-level fusion, where the binary features of multiple instances are concatenated and inputted to the transformation phase. On the other hand, the second scheme is based on a post-transformation feature-level fusion, where each instance is separately inputted to the transformation phase. Experiments conducted on the CASIA Iris-V3-Internal database confirm the high recognition accuracy of the two proposed schemes. Moreover, the security of the proposed schemes is analyzed, and their robustness against two well-known types of attacks is proven.

     

基于Adaboost的人脸与虹膜融合识别

传统生物特征识别系统的识别率经常受到环境以及生物学特征的自身局限性影响。针对该不足,提出一种基于人脸与虹膜特征级融合的多模态生物识别系统,采用中心对称局部二值模式算子提取人脸和虹膜的纹理特征,将人脸特征与虹膜特征线性整合成混合特征向量,利用Adaboost算法从该混合特征向量中优选出一组最佳特征组合,从而构成强分类器。实验结果表明,该多模态系统相比单模态系统具有更好的鲁棒性。     

煤矿入井人员唯一性检测技术研究

通过分析掌纹、指纹、虹膜、人脸、步态、声纹等生物特征识别技术的特点以及煤矿现场对入井人员生物特征的影响,指出虹膜识别、人脸识别、步态识别、声纹识别适用于煤矿入井人员唯一性检测;提出了一种基于人员定位和生物特征识别的煤矿入井人员唯一性检测技术方案,将生物特征识别技术嵌入人员定位系统,利用人员定位识别卡实现识别卡数量及人员身份的唯一性检测;指出煤矿入井人员唯一性检测技术的研究关键点是严重污染人脸的识别算法、对设备遮挡情况下人员步态图像的采集及对混入人员语音信号的煤矿现场噪声消除算法。     

基于纹理特征融合约减的虹膜识别研究

为了获得更完整的虹膜特征,通过空域和频域两个角度提取纹理特征,以变化分数维和小波特征值共同构成虹膜的初始特征序列．然后使用多目标遗传算法对所抽取的特征序列进行优化约减,最后以优化好的特征序列来训练虹膜分类器对虹膜进行识别．并针对虹膜认证实际应用中变化的安全性要求,使用了非对称的支持向量机．实验结果表明,结合时域和频域的特征序列较好地反映了虹膜的纹理变化特性,提高了虹膜识别的正确率．     

基于局部小波变换与奇异值分解的虹膜识别算法

虹膜识别以其唯一性、稳定性和非侵犯性等优点成为生物特征识别中极具发展潜力的身份识别技术。文章提出了一种基于局部小波变换和奇异值分解的虹膜识别算法。该算法首先对虹膜图像实行分窗小波分解,并对各窗口的子带图像作筛选处理,然后通过奇异值分解对筛选后的各子带图像作进一步的特征提取和压缩,得到虹膜识别特征。最后利用加权欧氏距离分类器进行识别。基于CASIA虹膜数据库的实验结果表明了该算法的有效性,为虹膜识别提供了一种新途径。     

Iris localization for direction and deformation independence based on polynomial curve fitting and singleton expansion

Multimedia Tools and Applications - In an authentic biometric system, iris recognition aims to detect the iris pattern of a person. The single unique pattern of the human iris may be extracted from...     

An improved palmprint recognition system using iris features

This paper presents a bimodal biometric recognition system based on the extracted features of the human palmprint and iris using a new graph-based approach termed Fisher locality preserving projections (FLPP). This new technique employs two graphs with the first being used to characterize the within-class compactness and the second dedicated to the augmentation of the between-class separability. By applying the FLPP, only the most discriminant and stable palmprint and iris features are retained. FLPP was implemented on the frequency domain by transforming the extracted region of interest extraction of both biometric modalities using Fourier transform. Subsequently, the palmprint and iris features vectors obtained are matched with their counterpart in the templates databases and the obtained scores are fused to produce a final decision. The proposed combination of palmprint and iris patterns has shown an excellent performance compared to unimodal palmprint biometric recognition. The system was evaluated on a database of 108 subjects and the experimental results show that our system performs very well and achieves a high accuracy expressed by an equal error rate of 0.00%.     

Biometric authentication

In this age of digital impersonation, biometric techniques are being used increasingly as a hedge against identity theft. The premise is that a biometric - a measurable physical characteristic or behavioral trait - is a more reliable indicator of identity than legacy systems such as passwords and PINs. There are three general ways to identify yourself to a computer system, based on what you know, what you have, or who you are. Biometrics belong to the "who you are" class and can be subdivided into behavioral and physiological approaches. Behavioral approaches include signature recognition, voice recognition, keystroke dynamics, and gait analysis. Physiological approaches include fingerprints; iris and retina scans; hand, finger, face, and ear geometry; hand vein and nail bed recognition; DNA; and palm prints. In this article, we focus on the two most popular biometric techniques: fingerprints and iris scans.     

VISA: a multimodal database of face and iris traits

In this paper, a new realistic and challenging Face-Iris multimodal biometric database called VISA database is described. One significant problem associated with the development and evaluation of multimodal biometric systems using face and iris biometric traits is the lack of publicly available multimodal databases that are acquired in an unconstrained environment. Currently, there exist no multimodal databases containing a sufficient number of common subjects involved in both face and iris data acquisition process under different conditions. The VISA database fulfills these requirements and it will be a useful tool for the design and development of new algorithms for developing multimodal biometric systems. The VISA iris images are acquired using the IriShield camera. Face images are captured using mobile device. The corpus of a new VISA database consists of face images that vary in expression, pose and illumination, and presence of occlusion whereas iris images vary in illumination, eye movement, and occlusion. A total of more than 5000 images of 100 subjects are collated and used to form the new database. The key features of the VISA dataset are the wide and diverse population of subjects (age and gender). The VISA database is able to support face and/or iris unimodal or multimodal biometric recognition. Hence, the VISA database is a useful addition for the purpose of research and development of biometric systems based on face and iris biometrics. This paper also describes the baseline results of state-of-the-art methods on the VISA dataset and other popular similar datasets. The VISA database will be made available to the public through https://vtu.ac.in/en/visa-multimodal-face-and-iris-biometrics-database/

     

A novel cancellable Iris template generation based on salting approach

The iris has been vastly recognized as one of the powerful biometrics in terms of recognition performance, both theoretically and empirically. However, traditional unprotected iris biometric recognition schemes are highly vulnerable to numerous privacy and security attacks. Several methods have been proposed to generate cancellable iris templates that can be used for recognition; however, these templates achieve lower accuracy of recognition in comparison to traditional unprotected iris templates. In this paper, a novel cancellable iris recognition scheme based on the salting approach is introduced. It depends on mixing the original binary iris code with a synthetic pattern using XOR operation. This scheme guarantees a high degree of privacy/security preservation without affecting the performance accuracy compared to the unprotected traditional iris recognition schemes. Comprehensive experiments on various iris image databases demonstrate similar accuracy to those of the original counterparts. Hence, robustness to several major privacy/security attacks is guaranteed.

     

基于MATLAB GUI 的虹膜识别算法测试平台

虹膜识别是一种重要的利用生物学特征进行的身份识别技术,针对虹膜识别人们已经提出了许多算法,但如何比较、评价各种算法,还没有一个统一的标准和测试平台,为此该文建立了一个虹膜识别算法的MATLAB图形用户界面（GUI）,给出了建立虹膜数据库应该考虑的问题。在该平台下,可以对虹膜识别的有关问题进行研究。对同一个虹膜数据库进行实验,可以获得不同算法的性能指标比较。该平台除了提供统一的操作界面进行各种算法比较研究外,还可以允许用户对新算法进行实验研究。结果表明,该平台能够实现各种算法的集中管理,并输出可视实验结果,很方便进行虹膜识别算法的研究和比较。     

Biometrics: Future Abuses

Where will the inevitable global mass collation of sensitive biometric data be stored?Starting with a case history from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), this article provides an introduction to the delicate relationship between biometric recognition and personal privacy. While technologies such as iris recognition are achieving high levels of intrinsic reliability, the spectre of their abuse lurks just around the corner.     

High-Performance Iris Recognition for Mobile Platforms

In spite of a fact that many standalone iris recognition solutions are successfully implemented and deployed around the world, development of a reliable iris recognition solution capable to provide high recognition performance (both in biometric quality and speed) on mobile device is still an actual task. Main issues related to iris recognition in the mobile devices consist in uncontrollable capturing conditions and limitations in computation power. The aim of the proposed approach is to eliminate aforementioned issues by providing user with comprehensive feedback and, at the same time, performing the most computationally complex operations only on the images of the best quality. Key features of the proposed approach are multi-stage algorithm structure, novel iris image quality estimation and adaptive iris feature vector quantization algorithms. These features allow to achieve high recognition accuracy and real-time performance which are proved by experimental results.     

基于局部线性嵌套的虹膜识别方法

虹膜识别技术由于与其它生物特征识别技术相比具有更高的准确率而一直备受关注。本文采用局部线性嵌入算法对虹膜样本进行训练,来提取虹膜纹理特征,并以最小距离分类器作为决策空间的判决准则。实验表明本文提出的虹膜识别方法取得了良好的识别效果。     

保护用户数量信息的安全虹膜识别方案

由于传统密码认证方式的不便,生物特征识别技术凭借其便捷、可靠、安全可溯源等特性脱颖而出。在不同的生物特征识别技术中,虹膜识别已被证明能提供较高的识别性能和稳定性,常被用于一些安全性要求较高的领域(如机密组织的认证管理等)。在这些领域中,合法用户数量信息往往也属于机密信息,是不能泄露的,近年来针对虹膜识别的攻击手段也越加先进,通过获得的数量信息可能推测出更多的其他信息,造成更大的安全隐患。但是现有的安全虹膜识别方案仅考虑满足可撤销性、不可逆性和不可连接性,未考虑保护用户数量信息。本文提出一种保护用户数量信息的安全虹膜识别方案,每个用户通过自身虹膜特征随机选择的结果及系统参数共同决定该用户的注册模板数量,攻击者难以根据服务器中存储的虹膜模板数量推测出合法用户数量。该方案能够有效地与现有的安全虹膜识别方案进行结合。理论分析结果表明,本文方案能够保护合法用户数量信息、保护新增用户数量信息、预防关联攻击、并且除了能够保持原始安全虹膜识别方案的可撤销性和不可连接性之外,还能进一步提升原始安全虹膜识别方案的不可逆性。实验结果表明,攻击者准确猜对合法用户数量信息的概率不足15%,且相对误差以及相对期望误差均超过10%,因此本文方案能有效保护用户数量信息,并且不会对原始安全虹膜识别方案的识别精度的影响造成较大影响,差异在0.55%之内。     

Iris Recognition using Multi Objective Artificial Bee Colony Optimization Algorithm with Autoencoder Classifier

Neural Processing Letters - In recent decades, iris recognition is a trustworthy and important biometric model for human recognition. Criminal to commercial products, citizen confirmation and...     

Personal identification based on iris texture analysis

With an increasing emphasis on security, automated personal identification based on biometrics has been receiving extensive attention over the past decade. Iris recognition, as an emerging biometric recognition approach, is becoming a very active topic in both research and practical applications. In general, a typical iris recognition system includes iris imaging, iris liveness detection, and recognition. This paper focuses on the last issue and describes a new scheme for iris recognition from an image sequence. We first assess the quality of each image in the input sequence and select a clear iris image from such a sequence for subsequent recognition. A bank of spatial filters, whose kernels are suitable for iris recognition, is then used to capture local characteristics of the iris so as to produce discriminating texture features. Experimental results show that the proposed method has an encouraging performance. In particular, a comparative study of existing methods for iris recognition is conducted on an iris image database including 2,255 sequences from 213 subjects. Conclusions based on such a comparison using a nonparametric statistical method (the bootstrap) provide useful information for further research.     

Investigating fusion approaches in multi-biometric cancellable recognition

Cancellable biometrics has recently been introduced in order to overcome some privacy issues about the management of biometric data, aiming to transform a biometric trait into a new but revocable representation for enrolment and identification (verification). Therefore, a new representation of original biometric data can be generated in case of being compromised. Additionally, the use multi-biometric systems are increasingly being deployed in various biometric-based applications since the limitations imposed by a single biometric model can be overcome by these multi-biometric recognition systems. In this paper, we specifically investigate the performance of different fusion approaches in the context of multi-biometrics cancellable recognition. In this investigation, we adjust the ensemble structure to be used for a biometric system and we use as examples two different biometric modalities (voice and iris data) in a multi-biometrics context, adapting three cancellable transformations for each biometric modality.     

Biometric Verification System Using Hyperparameter Tuned Deep Learning Model

Deep learning (DL) models have been useful in many computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing tasks in recent years. These models seem a natural fit to handle the rising number of biometric recognition problems, from cellphone authentication to airport security systems. DL approaches have recently been utilized to improve the efficiency of various biometric recognition systems. Iris recognition was considered the more reliable and accurate biometric detection method accessible. Iris recognition has been an active research region in the last few decades due to its extensive applications, from security in airports to homeland security border control. This article presents a new Political Optimizer with Deep Transfer Learning Enabled Biometric Iris Recognition (PODTL-BIR) model. The presented PODTL-BIR technique recognizes the iris for biometric security. In the presented PODTL-BIR model, an initial stage of pre-processing is carried out. In addition, the MobileNetv2 feature extractor is utilized to produce a collection of feature vectors. The PODTL-BIR technique utilizes a bidirectional gated recurrent unit (BiGRU) model to recognise iris for biometric verification. Finally, the political optimizer (PO) algorithm is used as a hyperparameter tuning strategy to improve the PODTL-BIR technique’s recognition efficiency. A wide-ranging experimental investigation was executed to validate the enhanced performance of the PODTL-BIR system. The experimental outcome stated the promising performance of the PODTL-BIR system over other existing algorithms.