1. Symmetric hash functions for fingerprint minutiae
S. Tulyakov, F. Farooq and V. Govindaraju
Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors
SUNY at Buffalo, New York, USA

2. Securing password information
It is impossible to learn the original password given stored hash value of it.

3. Securing fingerprint information
Wish to use similar functions for fingerprint data:

4. Obstacles in finding fingerprint hash functions
Fingerprint space
Hash space f1
h(f1) h f2
h(f2)
Since match algorithm will work with the values of hash functions,
similar fingerprints should have similar hash values
rotation and translation of original image should not have big impact on hash values
partial fingerprints should be matched

5. Existing Approaches Davida, Frankel, Matt (1998)
- use error correcting codes, features should be ordered
Biometric encryption (Soutar et al., 1998)
- use filters for Fourier transform of fingerprint image
- translation is accounted for, but not rotation
(example of such filters for face verification)

6. Existing Approaches Ratha, Connell, Bolle (2001)
- polynomial transform; need alignment.
Juels, Sudan (2002)
- map points to the values of error correcting codes , introduce variation by adding some other points.
Follow-ups:
Clancy et al, 2003
Uludag, Jain (2004)

7. Minutia points of the fingerprint
Minutia points - points where ridge structure changes: end of the ridge and branching of the ridge.
The positions of minutia points uniquely identifies the fingerprint.

8. Assumptions on minutiae sets extracted from the same finger
Assume that two fingerprints originating from one finger differ by scale and rotation. Thus the set of minutia points of one fingerprint image can be obtained from the set of minutia points of another fingerprint image by scaling and rotating.

9. Background on complex numbers(1)
Point in 2-dimensional plane can be represented as a complex number: ( is an element satisfying )
Adding complex number to all points in the complex plane results in a parallel shift of the plane by vector

10. Background on complex numbers (2)
Polar representation of complex numbers:
Denote magnitude of
Then

11. Background on complex numbers (3)
Multiplying all points in the complex plane by some complex number results in a rotation around origin by angle and scaling by factor

12. Transformation of minutiae set
If we represent minutia points as points on a complex plane, then scaling and rotation can be expressed by function: where is the complex number determining rotation and scaling, and is the complex number determining translation of minutia point.
Multiplying by r means rotating by angle and scaling by factor

13. Transformation function
If is a set of minutia points of first fingerprint and is a set of minutia points of second fingerprint (same finger), then we assume that there is a transformation such that for any

14. Hash functions of minutia points
Consider following functions of minutia positions:
The values of these symmetric functions do not depend on the order of minutia points.

15. Hash functions of transformed minutiae
What happens with hash functions if minutia point set is transformed?

16. Finding transformation parameters from hash function values
Thus can be expressed as a linear combinations of with coefficients depending on transformation parameters r and t.
Denote:
Thus
And r,t can be calculated given

17. Verifying fingerprint match using hash functions
When and are found we can use higher order hash functions to check if fingerprints match.
For example, if extracted minutia set is identical to the stored in the database, then for the hash function of third order we should get:
The difference between two parts of above equation can serve as a confidence measure for matching two sets of minutia points.

18. Practical considerations for matching localized hash values
Since direction of the minutia (direction of the ridge where minutia is located) is also important in fingerprint matching, we consider unit direction vectors and same hash functions of that vectors (associating direction vector with complex number)
The small changes in locations of minutia points result in big changes of symmetric functions of higher orders. Thus we limited ourselves to the symmetric functions of 1st and 2nd orders.

19. Matching Localized Subsets
Since it is rare that two fingerprint images contain exactly same minutia points, we consider subsets of minutia points.
To ensure privacy we must have less symmetric functions than points in the minutia subset.
Consider two subsets of 3 minutiae points & 2 functions
The dist function provides a “goodness” of match between the subsets

20. Goodness of Match
For all “local” subsets find how many subsets are matched and whether values of and are similar.
For each minutiae point, find the 3 nearest neighbors and form 3 triplets that always include the initial minutia.

21. Fingerprint Matching Algorithm(1)
Enrollment:
For each triplet generated let (c1,c2,c3) and (d1,d2,d3) be the locations and directions of the minutia
Compute hash functions
h1 = (c1 + c2 + c3)/3
g1 = (d1 + d2 + d3)/3
h2 = (c12 + c22 + c32)/3
g2 = (d12 + d22 + d32)/3
3. Store 4 values (h1, h2, g1, and g2) corresponding to each triplet in the database.

22. Fingerprint Matching Algorithm
Compute hash functions (h1’, h2’, g1’, and g2’) for all “local” triplets in the test fingerprint
For each pair of local hash value sets find the distance of match
Note that t can be derived from the match between h and h’ and establishing the pivot. For a given t, search several quantized r

23. Experimental results Co.3: 3 pts and 2 hash fns ERR = 3%
Original no-hash matching ERR = 1.7%
Co.2: 3 pts and 1 hash fn
Co.1: 2 points and 1 hash fn
tested on FVC2002 set, with 2800 genuine tests and 4950 impostor tests

24. Algorithm limitations
Different local minutia sets can have same hash value sets. Thus the expected performance of the algorithm is lower than the performance of the matching algorithm using all available fingerprint information.
Usually there are less matching hash values than matching minutiae. This means bigger difficulty in producing good match score, and setting match thresholds.
3 matching minutiae can result in only one matching hash pair

25. Thank you !
References
 Davide Maltoni, Dario Maio, Anil K. Jain and Salil Prabhakar, Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003
Colin Soutar, Danny Roberge, Alex Stoianov, Rene Gilroy and B.V.K. Vijaya Kumar, “Biometric Encryption”, in ICSA Guide to Cryptography, R.Nichols, ed. (McGraw-Hill, 1999)
G.I. Davida, Y. Frankel, and B.J. Matt. “On enabling secure applications through offline biometric identification”. In IEEE Symposium on Privacy and Security, 1998.
Tsai-Yang Jea, Viraj S. Chavan, Venu Govindaraju and John K. Schneider, “Security and matching of partial fingerprint recognition systems”, In SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, 2004.

26. Security
If the number of stored hash functions is less than the number of minutia points, it is not possible to find the positions of minutia points from local hash values.
Using system of hash equations is difficult, since it is not known which minutia correspond to particular hash value.

27. Cancelable Fingerprint Templates
If fingerprint database is compromised, the different set of symmetric hash functions should be chosen. It can be any function set, constituting a basis in the set of symmetric polynomial functions of order less than
Also, different set of hash functions can be chosen for each individual, resulting in cancelable fingerprint templates.