Robust Perceptual Hashing for Fingerprint Template Protection

Perceptual hashing has proven its robustness in securing biometric templates, where several methods have been proposed in order to have a robust and discriminating hash code against acceptable attacks. This paper proposes a robust perceptual hashing scheme for biometric template protection that based on SIFT and Harris functions for the feature ex-traction/selection phase and on DWT and SVD functions for the hash code generation phase. The experimental results in this paper discussed the effect of distance value and image blocks size parameters on hash performances (robustness and discrimination), which are used in the feature selection phase and the hash generation phase of our method respectively. The results show that we have could to choose the optimal parameters values in the generation of our hash code to give a best tradeoff between discrimination and robustness against acceptable image manipulations.