On the vulnerability of face verification systems to hill-climbing attacks

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1027-1038

  Galbally, Javier ^a   McCool, Chris ^b   Fierrez, Julian ^a   Marcel, Sebastien ^b   Ortega Garcia, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Face recognition; Hill climbing; Security; Vulnerabilities

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN; EIGENFACES; FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; FACE VERIFICATION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; HILL CLIMBING; HILL CLIMBING ALGORITHMS; INDEPENDENT SET; SECURITY; SECURITY FLAWS; SECURITY VULNERABILITIES;

BIOMETRICS; NETWORK SECURITY; STATISTICAL TESTS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 70449713306     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2009.08.022     Document Type: Article

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