Title: Identities, forgeries and disguises

Authors: Gerard Chollet, Patrick Perrot, Walid Karam, Chafic Mokbel, Sanjay Kanade, Dijana Petrovska-Delacret

Addresses: CNRS-LTCI, Telecom ParisTech, 46 Rue Barrault, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France. ' CNRS-LTCI, Telecom ParisTech, 46 Rue Barrault, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France. ' Departments of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Balamand, Al-Kurah, Lebanon. ' Departments of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Balamand, Al-Kurah, Lebanon. ' Institut Telecom, Telecom SudParis, 9 Rue Charles Fourier, 91011 Evry Cedex, France. ' Institut Telecom, Telecom SudParis, 9 Rue Charles Fourier, 91011 Evry Cedex, France

Abstract: The preservation of your identity could become a major concern. In many situations, you need to claim an identity and this claim needs to be verified somehow. The technology called biometrics may help. But, what if a deliberate impostor claims your identity? Will this forgery be always detected? Biometric identity verification is imperfect. This paper reviews some of the techniques that a deliberate impostor could use to defeat a biometric verification system. It focuses on audio-visual forgeries using voice conversion and face animation. It also describes identity disguise as a means of falsifying and concealing one|s identity. The recovery of an identity and cancellable biometrics are also useful techniques to protect from identity theft. Such techniques could also find useful applications in multimedia.

Keywords: identity verification; forgery; audio-visual imposture; voice conversion; face animation; identity disguise; identity recovery; cancellable biometrics; security; privacy.

DOI: 10.1504/IJITM.2012.044070

International Journal of Information Technology and Management, 2012 Vol.11 No.1/2, pp.138 - 152

Published online: 09 Aug 2014 *

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