On the vulnerability of fingerprint verification systems to fake fingerprint attacks
This addresses a security problem for biometric systems, but it is incremental as it builds on known vulnerabilities with a new dataset.
The paper tackled the vulnerability of fingerprint verification systems to fake fingerprint attacks by generating gummy fingers and testing them on optical and thermal sensors, showing that both systems are vulnerable with results indicating susceptibility in various scenarios.
A new method to generate gummy fingers is presented. A medium-size fake fingerprint database is described and two different fingerprint verification systems are evaluated on it. Three different scenarios are considered in the experiments, namely: enrollment and test with real fingerprints, enrollment and test with fake fingerprints, and enrollment with real fingerprints and test with fake fingerprints. Results for an optical and a thermal sweeping sensors are given. Both systems are shown to be vulnerable to direct attacks.