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Indistinguishability of biometric honey templates: Comparing human testers and SVM classifiers

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Abstract

In high level security environments, data protection and leakage prevention remains one of the main challenges. In biometric systems, its most sensitive piece of information, the template, is constantly being exchanged between its building blocks. instead of having one template, in this paper we generate a set of synthetic templates to camouflage the genuine one. To test their indistinguishability, we suppose an attack and compare two different classifications results of reconstructed faces: humans and SVM classifier. For the former, we built a platform where testers could classify a set of random pre-images reconstructed from real or synthetic (honey) templates. From an attacker point of view, we noticed that, compared to the SVM classifier, human testers showed better results in terms of classification distinguishability.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2020 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages76-82
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781728176246
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event2020 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2020 - Las Vegas, United States
Duration: 16 Dec 202018 Dec 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2020 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2020

Conference

Conference2020 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas
Period16/12/2018/12/20

Keywords

  • biometric honey template
  • database leakage
  • face recognition
  • human classification
  • SVM

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