Gene Itkis, Venkat Chandar, Benjamin Fuller, Joseph Campbell, Robert Cunningham. Iris Biometric Security Challenges and Possible Solutions: For your eyes only? Using the iris as a key. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2015.

Abstract

Biometrics were originally developed for identification, such as for criminal investigations. More recently, biometrics have been also utilized for authentication. Most biometric authentication systems today match a user?s biometric reading against a stored reference template generated during enrollment. If the reading and the template are sufficiently close, the authentication is considered successful and the user is authorized to access protected resources. This binary matching approach has major inherent vulnerabilities.

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