Error-Correcting Output Codes Guided Quantization for Biometric Hashing

Cagatay KARABAT  Hakan ERDOGAN 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems  Vol.E95-D  No.6  pp.1707-1712
Publication Date: 2012/06/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Image Recognition, Computer Vision
Keyword: 
biometric hashing,  biometric security,  privacy, 

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Summary: 
In this paper, we present a new biometric verification system. The proposed system employs a novel biometric hashing scheme that uses our proposed quantization method. The proposed quantization method is based on error-correcting output codes which are used for classification problems in the literature. We improve the performance of the random projection based biometric hashing scheme proposed by Ngo et al. in the literature [5]. We evaluate the performance of the novel biometric hashing scheme with two use case scenarios including the case where an attacker steals the secret key of a legitimate user. Simulation results demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed scheme.