Mixing Binary Face and Fingerprint based on Extended Feature Vector (EFV) Hashing

Abstract

Multimodal biometric template protection (BTP) is gaining increasing attention as it overcomes the drawback of unimodal BTP. In this work, a token-less cancellable biometric scheme, namely Extended Feature Vector (EFV) Hashing, is applied to fuse the multimodal binary face and fingerprint template at a feature-level fusion. In advance to the unimodal EFV hashing, this work reorganizes the feature extension mechanism in EFV transformation and introduces the random sampling mechanism to increase the difficulty for reverse processing of the cancellable template. In addition, two fusion options are developed for producing the cancellable template. Experiments are conducted on the well-known Fingerprint FVC2004 and Face LFW datasets. The results demonstrate that the propose approach achieves a satisfactory verification rate with EER ~~ 0.1%.