English
Related papers

Related papers: Fuzzy Commitments Offer Insufficient Protection to…

200 papers

Generative models can reconstruct face images from encoded representations (templates) bearing remarkable likeness to the original face, raising security and privacy concerns. We present \textsc{FaceCloak}, a neural network framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Sudipta Banerjee , Anubhav Jain , Chinmay Hegde , Nasir Memon

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 paper proposes PolyProtect, a method for protecting the sensitive face embeddings that are used to represent people's faces in neural-network-based face verification systems. PolyProtect transforms a face embedding to a more secure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Vedrana Krivokuća Hahn , Sébastien Marcel

Recent works have demonstrated the feasibility of inverting face recognition systems, enabling to recover convincing face images using only their embeddings. We leverage such template inversion models to develop a novel type ofdeep morphing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Laurent Colbois , Hatef Otroshi Shahreza , Sébastien Marcel

In identity management system, frequently used biometric recognition system needs awareness towards issue of protecting biometric template as far as more reliable solution is apprehensive. In sight of this biometric template protection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Shraddha S. Shinde , Prof. Anagha P. Khedkar

Biometric authentication is one of the promising alternatives to standard password-based authentication offering better usability and security. In this work, we revisit the biometric authentication based on "fuzzy signatures" introduced by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Shuichi Katsumata , Takahiro Matsuda , Wataru Nakamura , Kazuma Ohara , Kenta Takahashi

The work presents an extension of the fuzzy approach to 2-D shape recognition [1] through refinement of initial or coarse classification decisions under a two pass approach. In this approach, an unknown pattern is classified by refining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-16 Subhadip Basu , Mahantapas Kundu , Mita Nasipuri , Dipak Kumar Basu

In deep neural networks for facial recognition, feature vectors are numerical representations that capture the unique features of a given face. While it is known that a version of the original face can be recovered via "feature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Emily Wenger , Francesca Falzon , Josephine Passananti , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

Biometric authentication systems play a crucial role in modern security systems. However, maintaining the balance of privacy and integrity of stored biometrics derivative data while achieving high recognition accuracy is often challenging.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Dmytro Zakharov , Oleksandr Kuznetsov , Emanuele Frontoni

The recently proposed facial cloaking attacks add invisible perturbation (cloaks) to facial images to protect users from being recognized by unauthorized facial recognition models. However, we show that the "cloaks" are not robust enough…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jing Wen

Multimodal biometric systems have gained popularity for their enhanced recognition accuracy and resistance to attacks like spoofing. This research explores methods for fusing iris and face feature vectors and implements robust security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Surendra Singh , Lambert Igene , Stephanie Schuckers

Today's proliferation of powerful facial recognition systems poses a real threat to personal privacy. As Clearview.ai demonstrated, anyone can canvas the Internet for data and train highly accurate facial recognition models of individuals…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Shawn Shan , Emily Wenger , Jiayun Zhang , Huiying Li , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

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

Today, deep learning represents the most popular and successful form of machine learning. Deep learning has revolutionised the field of pattern recognition, including biometric recognition. Biometric systems utilising deep learning have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Christian Rathgeb , Jascha Kolberg , Andreas Uhl , Christoph Busch

In this work, we investigate the concept of biometric backdoors: a template poisoning attack on biometric systems that allows adversaries to stealthily and effortlessly impersonate users in the long-term by exploiting the template update…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Giulio Lovisotto , Simon Eberz , Ivan Martinovic

In this paper we present a framework for secure identification using deep neural networks, and apply it to the task of template protection for face authentication. We use deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to learn a mapping from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Rohit Kumar Pandey , Yingbo Zhou , Bhargava Urala Kota , Venu Govindaraju

Plastic surgery and disguise variations are two of the most challenging co-variates of face recognition. The state-of-art deep learning models are not sufficiently successful due to the availability of limited training samples. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Saksham Suri , Anush Sankaran , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

Deep models have achieved impressive performance for face hallucination tasks. However, we observe that directly feeding the hallucinated facial images into recog- nition models can even degrade the recognition performance despite the much…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Junyu Wu , Shengyong Ding , Wei Xu , Hongyang Chao

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

Fuzzy vault is a scheme providing secure authentication based on fuzzy matching of sets. A major application is the use of biometric features for authentication, whereby unencrypted storage of these features is not an option because of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Kyle Marshall , Davide Schipani , Anna-Lena Trautmann , Joachim Rosenthal