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@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sswmc/UludagJ04,
  author    = {Umut Uludag and
               Anil K. Jain},
  title     = {Attacks on biometric systems: a case study in fingerprints},
  booktitle = {Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia
               Contents},
  year      = {2004},
  pages     = {622-633},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sswmc/2004},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

@proceedings{DBLP:conf/sswmc/2004,
  editor    = {Edward J. Delp and
               Ping Wah Wong},
  title     = {Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia
               Contents VI, San Jose, California, USA, January 18-22, 2004,
               Proceedings},
  booktitle = {Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia
               Contents},
  publisher = {SPIE},
  series    = {Proceedings of SPIE},
  volume    = {5306},
  year      = {2004},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

In spite of numerous advantages of biometrics-based personal
authentication systems over traditional security systems based on
token or knowledge, they are vulnerable to attacks that can decrease
their security considerably. In this paper, we analyze these attacks
in the realm of a fingerprint biometric system. We propose an attack
system that uses a hill climbing procedure to synthesize the target
minutia templates and evaluate its feasibility with extensive
experimental results conducted on a large fingerprint
database. Several measures that can be utilized to decrease the
probability of such attacks and their ramifications are also
presented.