Application of Affine-based Reconstruction to Retinal Point Patterns

Inverse biometrics that exploit the information of biometric references from comparison scores can compromise sensitive personal information of the users in biometric recognition systems. One inverse biometric method that has been very successful in regenerating face images applies an affine transformation to model the face recognition algorithm. This method is general and could apply to templates extracted from other biometric characteristics. This research proposes two formats to apply this method to spatial point patterns extracted from retina images and tests its performance on reconstructing such sparse templates. The results show that the quality of the reconstructed retina point pattern templates is lower than would be accepted by the system as mated.