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@INPROCEEDINGS{Galbally_BIDS_2009,
                      author = {Galbally, Javier and McCool, Chris and Fierrez, Julian and Marcel, S{\'{e}}bastien and Ortega-Garcia, Javier},
                    projects = {Idiap, MOBIO},
                       title = {Hill-Climbing Attack to an Eigenface-Based Face Verification System},
                   booktitle = {Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on  Biometrics, Identity and Security (BIdS)},
                        year = {2009},
                    abstract = {We use a general hill-climbing attack algorithm based on Bayesian adaption to test the vulnerability of an Eigenface-based approach for face recognition against indirect attacks. The attacking technique uses the scores provided by the matcher to adapt a global distribution, computed from a development set of users, to the local specificities of the client being attacked. The proposed attack is evaluated on an Eigenfacebased verification system using the XM2VTS database. The results show a very high efficiency of the hill-climbing algorithm, which successfully bypassed the system for over 85\% of the attacked accounts.},
                         pdf = {https://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/papers/2009/Galbally_BIDS_2009.pdf}
}