Fingerprint Liveness Detection Competition 2013
The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Cagliari is proud to announce the third edition of the Fingerprint Liveness Detection Competition 2013 that will be hosted by the International Conference on Biometrics in Madrid.
Spoofing The widespread use of personal verification systems based on fingerprints has shown some weaknesses related to the problem of security. Among the others, it is well-known that a fingerprint verification system can be deceived by submitting artificial reproductions of fingerprints made up of silicon or gelatine to the electronic capture device (optical or capacitive). These images are then processed as “true” fingerprints.
Liveness Detection Therefore, a recent issue in the field of security in fingerprint verification (unsupervised especially) is known as “liveness detection”. The standard verification system is coupled with additional hardware or software modules aimed to certify the authenticity of the submitted fingerprints. Whilst hardware-based solutions are the most expensive, software-based ones attempt to measure liveness from characteristics of images themselves by simply applying image processing algorithms.
Software Liveness Classification The problem of vitality detection is treated as a two-class classification problem (live or fake). An appropriate classifier is designed in order to extract the probability of the image vitality given the extracted set of features. LivDet2013 competition is open to all academic and industrial institutions which have a solution for software-based fingerprint vitality detection problem.
LivDet2013 Competition Overview Each participant is invited to submit its algorithm in an Win32 console application. The performance will be evaluated by utilizing a very large data set of “fake” and “live” fingerprint images captured with three different optical scanners. The performance rank will be compiled and published in this site. The goal of the competition is to compare different methodologies for software-based fingerprint liveness detection with a common experimental protocol and data set. The ambition of the competition is to become the reference event for academic and industrial research. The competition is not defined as an official system for quality certification of the proposed solutions, but may impact the state of the art in this crucial field, with reference to the general problem of security in biometric systems. LivDet 2013 will feature both fingerprint and iris biometrics. The structure of the competition will consist of four separate parts;
- Fingerprint Part 1: Algorithms
- Fingerprint Part 2: Systems
IMPORTANT DATE Deadlines:
- Registration by December 31, 2012
- Submission by January 31, 2013