A Novel Cancelable Fingerprint Template Generation Mechanism Using Visual Secret Sharing

Abstract

In fingerprint-based authentication system, cancelable fingerprint templates are generated to defend the fingerprint information. In this paper, we proposed a novel cancelable fingerprint template using Visual Secret Sharing (VSS). Using VSS, each fingerprint image is encrypted into different shares. Finally, these shares are preserved in distinct databases and treated as fingerprint template. Traditional VSS schemes are suffering from pixel expansion and contrast reduction. We have used grid-based VSS and data embedding mechanisms to succeed these limitations. The proposed fingerprint templates satisfy ideal properties of cancelable templates such as non-invertibility, diversity, and revocability without altering the performance of the authentication system. To enhance the speed of the template generation and reconstruction, we have used General Purpose Graphical Processing Unit (GPGPU) to fulfill the operations. The experimental evaluation validates that the reconstructed fingerprints have equivalent performance as the initial fingerprints with upgraded security. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.