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In this paper, a Global-Local Distance Metric (GLDM) framework is proposed to learn cost-effective distance metrics, which reduce within-class variability and augment between-class variability, so that simple error correction thresholds of bio-cryptosystems provide high classification accuracy. First, a large number of samples from a development dataset are used to train a global distance metric that differentiates within-class from between-class samples of the population. Then, once user-specific samples are available for enrollment, the global metric is tuned to a local user-specific one. Proof-of-concept experiments on two reference offline signature databases confirm the viability of the proposed approach. Distance metrics are produced based on concise signature representations consisting of about 20 features and a single prototype. A signature-based bio-cryptosystem is designed using the produced metrics and has shown average classification error rates of about 7% and 17% for the PUCPR and the GPDS-300 databases, respectively. This level of performance is comparable to that obtained with complex state-of-the-art classifiers.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/cryptography1030022","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,11,27]],"date-time":"2017-11-27T11:07:08Z","timestamp":1511780828000},"page":"22","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Learning Global-Local Distance Metrics for Signature-Based Biometric Cryptosystems"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"1","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6630-1944","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"George","family":"Ekladious","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratoire D\u2019imagerie, de Vision et D\u2019intelligence Artificielle, Ecole de Technologie Sup\u00e9rieure, Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec, 1100 rue Notre-Dame Ouest, Room A-3600, Montr\u00e9al, QC H3C 1K3, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Robert","family":"Sabourin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratoire D\u2019imagerie, de Vision et D\u2019intelligence Artificielle, Ecole de Technologie Sup\u00e9rieure, Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec, 1100 rue Notre-Dame Ouest, Room A-3600, Montr\u00e9al, QC H3C 1K3, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Eric","family":"Granger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratoire D\u2019imagerie, de Vision et D\u2019intelligence Artificielle, Ecole de Technologie Sup\u00e9rieure, Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec, 1100 rue Notre-Dame Ouest, Room A-3600, Montr\u00e9al, QC H3C 1K3, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,11,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"125","DOI":"10.1109\/TIFS.2006.873653","article-title":"Biometrics: A Tool for Information Security","volume":"1","author":"Jain","year":"2006","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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