A Framework for Secure Selfie-Based Biometric Authentication in the Cloud

Cloud-based selfie authentication has multiple advantages over on-device selfie authentication: Cloud-based authentication can support nomadic access from multiple devices including those not owned by the user, can leverage cheap and scalable utility computing, and can enable rapid innovation by allowing new matching algorithms to be continually deployed with no need to update the local device. This chapter presents a framework for a cloud-based selfie biometric authentication, which is termed Selfie-Biometrics-as-a-Service (SBaaS). By leveraging Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) concepts, the framework is designed to enable independent software vendors to develop extensions and add-ons to a provider’s core application. In particular, the framework creates an innovative marketplace for biometric algorithms by providing a standard pre-built interface for the development and submission of new matching …