Inspec keywords: visual databases; feature extraction; cryptography; fingerprint identification

Other keywords: fingerprint verification competition; FVC 2002 DB3 databases; biometric-based authentication systems; protection method; fingerprint template security; fused structures; distant structure; FVC 2004 DB3 databases; FVC 2002 DB1 databases; local structure; features transformed; FVC 2004 DB1 databases; equal error rate; EER; template protection; cancelable template

Subjects: Spatial and pictorial databases; Computer vision and image processing techniques; Image recognition; Data security; Cryptography