Title: Hybrid fingerprint authentication using artifact-metrics

Authors: Miki Yamagishi, Nobuyuki Nishiuchi, Kimihiro Yamanaka

Addresses: Department of Management Systems Engineering, Graduate School of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 6-6 Asahigaoka, Hino, Tokyo, 191-0065, Japan. ' Department of Management Systems Engineering, Graduate School of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 6-6 Asahigaoka, Hino, Tokyo, 191-0065, Japan. ' Faculty of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 6-6 Asahigaoka, Hino, Tokyo, 191-0065, Japan

Abstract: Fingerprint authentication has been the latest technology available for personal identification. However, it has a major problem of spoofing. In this paper, the authors propose an anti-spoofing method that is a hybrid fingerprint authentication using artifact-metrics. The artifact-metrics is a coined word, and is technology that authenticates an artifact using a peculiar feature of objects. In this research, a round sticker that has a random pattern is used as the artifact, and is put on the fingernail of the same finger which fingerprint has been used. In this method, three verifications are done. The first verification is the fingerprint, the second is the artifact, and the third is the relation between the fingerprint and the artifact. If the information of fingerprint and the artifact are stolen, the spoofing can be prevented by the third verification, the relation between the fingerprint and the artifact.

Keywords: biometrics; anti-spoofing; spoofing; fingerprint authentication; artifact metrics; hybrid authentication; verification; identification; security.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBM.2008.020142

International Journal of Biometrics, 2008 Vol.1 No.2, pp.160 - 172

Published online: 30 Aug 2008 *

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