Presentation 2017-03-20
A Proposal of Micro Biometric Authentication using Nail Texture
Genki Sugimoto, Masahiro Fujita, Yuto Mano, Hiroaki Muramatsu, Masakatsu Nishigaki,
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Abstract(in English) Micro biometric authentication is an authentication mechanism which applies minute patterns of a user’s body parts into biometric authentication. In this paper, we propose micro biometric authentication using nail texture. Nails grow day by day. As soon as the minute part of a nail registered as template reaches the free edge of nail and is cut with a nail clipper, traceability of the biometric data is perfectly lost. We developed a prototype system of the micro-nail authentication and conducted a basic experiment. The experimental result showed the feasibility of the proposed authentication scheme.
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Keyword(in English) Biometric authentication / Privacy Preservation / Minute patterns / Nail texture
Paper # BioX2016-48,PRMU2016-211
Date of Issue 2017-03-13 (BioX, PRMU)

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Committee PRMU / BioX
Conference Date 2017/3/20(2days)
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Chair Eisaku Maeda(NTT) / Masakatsu Nishigaki(Shizuoka Univ.)
Vice Chair Seiichi Uchida(Kyushu Univ.) / Hironobu Fujiyoshi(Chubu Univ.) / Akira Otsuka(AIST) / Hiroshi Takano(Toyama Pref. Univ.)
Secretary Seiichi Uchida(Kyoto Univ.) / Hironobu Fujiyoshi(NTT) / Akira Otsuka(NEC) / Hiroshi Takano(AIST)
Assistant Masaki Oonishi(AIST) / Takuya Funatomi(NAIST) / Masatsugu Ichino(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Naoyuki Takada(Secom) / Takahiro Aoki(Fujitsu Labs.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding / Technical Committee on Biometrics
Language JPN
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Title (in English) A Proposal of Micro Biometric Authentication using Nail Texture
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Keyword(1) Biometric authentication
Keyword(2) Privacy Preservation
Keyword(3) Minute patterns
Keyword(4) Nail texture
1st Author's Name Genki Sugimoto
1st Author's Affiliation Shizuoka University(Shizuoka Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Masahiro Fujita
2nd Author's Affiliation Shizuoka University(Shizuoka Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Yuto Mano
3rd Author's Affiliation Shizuoka University(Shizuoka Univ.)
4th Author's Name Hiroaki Muramatsu
4th Author's Affiliation Shizuoka University(Shizuoka Univ.)
5th Author's Name Masakatsu Nishigaki
5th Author's Affiliation Shizuoka University(Shizuoka Univ.)
Date 2017-03-20
Paper # BioX2016-48,PRMU2016-211
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) BioX-527,PRMU-528
Page pp.pp.93-97(BioX), pp.93-97(PRMU),
#Pages 5
Date of Issue 2017-03-13 (BioX, PRMU)