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Direct Template-Free Encryption Key Generation from Palm-Veins

Harmer, Karl and Howells, Gareth (2012) Direct Template-Free Encryption Key Generation from Palm-Veins. In: 2012 Third International Conference on Emerging Security Technologies. IEEE, pp. 70-73. ISBN 978-1-4673-2448-9. (doi:10.1109/EST.2012.20) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:35809)

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Abstract

In this paper, an investigation into the feasibility of applying the palm-vein biometric modality within a template-free key generation framework was conducted. In partnership with iCognize GmbH, experiments were conducted on both the raw images and the encoded biometric templates. Although feature analysis suggested difficulties may ensue due to the significant overlapping between genuine and impostor distributions, it was found that the framework still performed well for dataset of 20 subjects. The experiments resulted in both the key reproducibility and key uniqueness rates achieving 100% with considerable effective key lengths. These results are highly encouraging and demonstrate that stable keys can be achieved from poorly separable features.

Item Type: Book section
DOI/Identification number: 10.1109/EST.2012.20
Uncontrolled keywords: feature extraction; encryption; veins; vectors; calibration; testing; software
Subjects: T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Engineering and Digital Arts
Depositing User: P.S.P. Yapp
Date Deposited: 30 Oct 2013 08:55 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:12 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/35809 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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