ALTERNATIVE “IS ALIVE” BASED APPROACH FOR ALTERED FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION

Abstract

Fingerprint recognition for unique identification suffers from a disadvantage of being easy to imitate when compared to other forms of biometric authentications where surgical procedure is necessary. Different material can be used to mould and reproduce exact copy of a fingerprint with its detailed shape and extended characteristics (e.g. minutiae point locations). Recent research in this field shows the lack of aliveness detection mechanism in fingerprint sensors technology. Security issues with authentication device are a major concern in many applications. This work proposes the use of heartbeat as means of “is-alive” detection along with minutiae based fingerprint recognition to overcome the above stated challenges.