  Palmprint recognition has become more and more popular due to its advantages
over other biometric modalities such as fingerprint, in that it is larger in
area, richer in information and able to work at a distance. However, the issue
of palmprint privacy and security (especially palmprint template protection)
remains under-studied. Among the very few research works, most of them only use
the directional and orientation features of the palmprint with transformation
processing, yielding unsatisfactory protection and identification performance.
Thus, this paper proposes a palmprint template protection-oriented operator
that has a fixed length and is ordered in nature, by fusing point features and
orientation features. Firstly, double orientations are extracted with more
accuracy based on MFRAT. Then key points of SURF are extracted and converted to
be fixed-length and ordered features. Finally, composite features that fuse up
the double orientations and SURF points are transformed using the irreversible
transformation of IOM to generate the revocable palmprint template. Experiments
show that the EER after irreversible transformation on the PolyU and CASIA
databases are 0.17% and 0.19% respectively, and the absolute precision loss is
0.08% and 0.07%, respectively, which proves the advantage of our method.
