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Biometrics make human identification possible with a sample of a biometric trait and an associated database. Classical identification techniques lead to privacy concerns. This paper introduces a new method to identify someone using his…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-09-07 Julien Bringer , Herve Chabanne , Bruno Kindarji

Face recognition is a popular form of biometric authentication and due to its widespread use, attacks have become more common as well. Recent studies show that Face Recognition Systems are vulnerable to attacks and can lead to erroneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Sanjay Saha , Terence Sim

Technological advancements allow biometric applications to be more omnipresent than in any other time before. This paper argues that in the current EU data protection regulation, classification applications using biometric data receive less…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Tamas Bisztray , Nils Gruschka , Thirimachos Bourlai , Lothar Fritsch

Data poisoning has been proposed as a compelling defense against facial recognition models trained on Web-scraped pictures. Users can perturb images they post online, so that models will misclassify future (unperturbed) pictures. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Evani Radiya-Dixit , Sanghyun Hong , Nicholas Carlini , Florian Tramèr

Biometric data contains distinctive human traits such as facial features or gait patterns. The use of biometric data permits an individuation so exact that the data is utilized effectively in identification and authentication systems. But…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Simon Hanisch , Julian Todt , Jose Patino , Nicholas Evans , Thorsten Strufe

Biometric recognition has primarily addressed closed-set identification, assuming all probe subjects are in the gallery. However, most practical applications involve open-set biometrics, where probe subjects may or may not be present in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Yiyang Su , Minchul Kim , Feng Liu , Anil Jain , Xiaoming Liu

Cancelable biometrics are a group of techniques to transform the input biometric to an irreversible feature intentionally using a transformation function and usually a key in order to provide security and privacy in biometric recognition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Mahdi Ghafourian , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Aythami Morales , Ignacio Serna

Synthetic data is emerging as a substitute for authentic data to solve ethical and legal challenges in handling authentic face data. The current models can create real-looking face images of people who do not exist. However, it is a known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Marco Huber , Anh Thi Luu , Fadi Boutros , Arjan Kuijper , Naser Damer

Biometric recognition is a trending technology that uses unique characteristics data to identify or verify/authenticate security applications. Amidst the classically used biometrics, voice and face attributes are the most propitious for…

Computationally efficient, accurate, and privacy-preserving data storage and retrieval are among the key challenges faced by practical deployments of biometric identification systems worldwide. In this work, a method of protected indexing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Pawel Drozdowski , Fabian Stockhardt , Christian Rathgeb , Dailé Osorio-Roig , Christoph Busch

Biometric authentication systems are crucial for security, but developing them involves various complexities, including privacy, security, and achieving high accuracy without directly storing pure biometric data in storage. We introduce an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Dmytro Zakharov , Oleksandr Kuznetsov , Emanuele Frontoni , Natalia Kryvinska

This work explores facial expression bias as a security vulnerability of face recognition systems. Despite the great performance achieved by state-of-the-art face recognition systems, the algorithms are still sensitive to a large range of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Alejandro Peña , Ignacio Serna , Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez , Agata Lapedriza

Synthetic datasets have long been thought of as second-rate, to be used only when "real" data collected directly from the real world is unavailable. But this perspective assumes that raw data is clean, unbiased, and trustworthy, which it…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Luke Rodriguez , Bill Howe

Nowadays, traditional authentication methods are vulnerable to face attacks that are often based on inherent security issues. Professional attackers leverage adversarial offenses on the security holes. Biometrics has intrinsic advantages to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Fangshi Zhou , Tianming Zhao

We create synthetic biometric databases to study general, fundamental, biometric principles. First, we check the validity of the synthetic database design by comparing it to real data in terms of biometric performance. The real data used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Lee Friedman , Oleg Komogortsev

Quantum databases open an exciting new frontier in data management by offering privacy guarantees that classical systems cannot match. Traditional engines tackle user privacy, which hides the records being queried, or data privacy, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Giancarlo Gatti , Floris Geerts , Rihan Hai

Nowadays, facial recognition systems are still vulnerable to adversarial attacks. These attacks vary from simple perturbations of the input image to modifying the parameters of the recognition model to impersonate an authorised subject.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Daile Osorio-Roig , Mahdi Ghafourian , Christian Rathgeb , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Christoph Busch , Julian Fierrez

Forensic application of automatically matching skull with face images is an important research area linking biometrics with practical applications in forensics. It is an opportunity for biometrics and face recognition researchers to help…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Shruti Nagpal , Maneet Singh , Arushi Jain , Richa Singh , Mayank Vatsa , Afzel Noore

Cancelable biometrics (CB) employs an irreversible transformation to convert the biometric features into transformed templates while preserving the relative distance between two templates for security and privacy protection. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Xingbo Dong , Jaewoo Park , Zhe Jin , Andrew Beng Jin Teoh , Massimo Tistarelli , KokSheik Wong

A hidden database refers to a dataset that an organization makes accessible on the web by allowing users to issue queries through a search interface. In other words, data acquisition from such a source is not by following static…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Cheng Sheng , Nan Zhang , Yufei Tao , Xin Jin