BIOmetrics spooF resistance Enhancement, evaluatioN and CErtification – BIOFENCE

The evaluation and certification of spoofing resistance is one of the major issues concerning biometrics technologies in their present and future implementation. The biometric solutions based on fingerprints have been entering our everyday life but new biometrics technologies based on face, iris or vein pattern recognition emerged and starts to be part of the overall information systems security solutions.

In this context, BIOFENCE proposes a systematic study of the spoofing resistance of face, iris and vein patterns biometrics in order to come up with a suitable evaluation methodology and certification criteria. The project will consider the following topics: after an overview of the existing spoofing techniques concerning the aforementioned three biometrics modalities, we will evaluate their resistance against these attacks. Moreover, the project will attempt to consider and anticipate all possible attacks in order to think of appropriate protection solutions, thus to strive for development of “invulnerable” systems. To achieve this goal, new spoofing techniques and methods will be developed for the face, iris and vein pattern biometrics. In a second part of the project, countermeasures to these direct attacks will be studied in order to improve the resistance of the three modalities to fakes. In a third part of the project, a methodology of security evaluation and certification will be proposed and several tests will be carried out in order to evaluate the resistance of the proposed biometric solutions. Finally, a particular attention will be paid to the compliance of the developments in terms of ethics and respect of privacy as well as to the societal impacts of the project.