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As a result of the growing interest in biometrics a new field of research has emerged entitled Biometric Cryptosystems. Only a small amount of work, which additionally tends to be custom-built according to the specific application context, has been published in this area. This work provides a systematic treatment of how to construct biometric cryptosystems based on iris biometrics. A cryptographic primitive called Fuzzy Commitment Scheme is adopted to different types of iris recognition algorithms to hide and retrieve a cryptographic key in and out of a biometric template. Experimental results confirm the soundness of the approach.
This work has been supported by the Austrian Science Fund, project no. L554-N15.
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Rathgeb, C., Uhl, A. (2009). Systematic Construction of Iris-Based Fuzzy Commitment Schemes. In: Tistarelli, M., Nixon, M.S. (eds) Advances in Biometrics. ICB 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5558. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01793-3_95
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