Biometric technology for crime prevention is emerging. The design of a biometric system is decisive for the protection of fundamental rights. This paper analyses the necessary reduction of identifiability of biometric data. By outlining the German legal framework, the paper assesses a technical design proposal for future biometric systems. In this context, a Three-Step-Model is suggested.

The privacy invasion of the biometric technology is getting public concerns due to the fact that biometric characteristics are immutable. In other words, their compromise is permanent. Reissuable biometrics was devised to make the reissuable or replaceable of biometric templates possible once they are found compromised. Biometric Strengthening is a form of reissuable biometrics. It strengthens ...

Current approaches for risk analysis of biometric authentication technology are limited to enrollment and identification/verification processes with biometric algorithms mainly considered as black-boxes, only. This paper presents a systematic approach for a holistic security risk analysis of biometric authentication technology based on the high-level component & process model for integrated sec...

With the wide spread utilization of biometric identification systems, establishing the authenticity of biometric data itself has emerged as an important research issue. The fact that biometric data is not replaceable and is not secret, combined with the existence of several types of attacks that are possible in a biometric system, make the issue of security/integrity of biometric data extremely...

The lip-region can be interpreted as either a genetic or behavioural biometric trait. Despite this breadth of biometric content, lip-based biometric systems are scarcely developed in the literature. A recent trend in lip biometrics is to use a spatiotemporal texture representation of visual speech to generate biometric features. In this paper we make two contributions related to the above biome...

In this paper, the use of biometric systems in forensic applications is reviewed. Main differences between the aim of commercial biometric systems and forensic reporting are highlighted, showing that commercial biometric systems are not suited to directly report results to a court of law. We propose the use of a Bayesian approach for forensic reporting, in which the forensic scientist has to as...

We propose a measure of information gained through biometric matching systems. Firstly, we discuss how the information about the identity of a person is derived from biometric samples through a biometric system, and define the “biometric system entropy” or BSE based on mutual information. We present several theoretical properties and interpretations of the BSE, and show how to design a biometri...

An emerging direction for authenticating people is the adoption of biometric authentication systems. Biometric credentials are becoming increasingly popular as a mean of authenticating people due to the wide rage of advantages that they provide with respect to classical authentication methods (e.g., password-based authentication). The most characteristic feature of this authentication method is...

Identification and authentication by individuals' biometric characteristics is becoming an accepted procedure that is slowly replacing the most popular identification procedure – passwords. Rapid progress of biometric technology and its expanded application brings new possibilities in identification process. The usage of biometric smart card in the process of identification and authentication i...

Biometric is the science of establishing the identity of on individual based on physical or behavioral traits such as face, fingerprint, Iris. The increasing popularity of biometrics offers personal identification systems greater security and convenient than password authentication system. A biometric system operates by acquiring raw biometric data from a subject, extracting a feature set from ...