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With the widespread use of biometric recognition, several issues related to the privacy and security provided by this technology have been recently raised and analysed. As a result, the early common belief among the biometrics community of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Marta Gomez-Barrero , Javier Galbally

Biometrics have a long-held hope of replacing passwords by establishing a non-repudiated identity and providing authentication with convenience. Convenience drives consumers toward biometrics-based access management solutions. Unlike…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Scott Streit , Brian Streit , Stephen Suffian

This study investigates the efficacy of facial micro-expressions as a soft biometric for enhancing person recognition, aiming to broaden the understanding of the subject and its potential applications. We propose a deep learning approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Tuval Kay , Yuval Ringel , Khen Cohen , Mor-Avi Azulay , David Mendlovic

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital security, biometric authentication systems, particularly facial recognition, have emerged as integral components of various security protocols. However, the reliability of these systems is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Oleksandr Kuznetsov , Emanuele Frontoni , Luca Romeo , Riccardo Rosati , Andrea Maranesi , Alessandro Muscatello

The role of soft biometrics to enhance person recognition systems in unconstrained scenarios has not been extensively studied. Here, we explore the utility of the following modalities: gender, ethnicity, age, glasses, beard, and moustache.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Ester Gonzalez-Sosa , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez

Face Recognition systems are widely deployed in real-world applications, but they also raise privacy concerns due to unauthorized collection and misuse of facial data. Existing adversarial privacy protection methods rely on input-space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jiabei Zhang , Ziyuan Yang , Andrew Beng Jin Teoh , Yi Zhang

As Facial Recognition System(FRS) is widely applied in areas such as access control and mobile payments due to its convenience and high accuracy. The security of facial recognition is also highly regarded. The Face anti-spoofing system(FAS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Qiushi Guo

When compared to unimodal systems, multimodal biometric systems have several advantages, including lower error rate, higher accuracy, and larger population coverage. However, multimodal systems have an increased demand for integrity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Veeru Talreja , Matthew Valenti , Nasser Nasrabadi

The success of deep face recognition (FR) systems has raised serious privacy concerns due to their ability to enable unauthorized tracking of users in the digital world. Previous studies proposed introducing imperceptible adversarial noises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Minghui Li , Jiangxiong Wang , Hao Zhang , Ziqi Zhou , Shengshan Hu , Xiaobing Pei

Face recognition systems extract embedding vectors from face images and use these embeddings to verify or identify individuals. Face reconstruction attack (also known as template inversion) refers to reconstructing face images from face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Hatef Otroshi Shahreza , Anjith George , Sébastien Marcel

The success of deep learning based face recognition systems has given rise to serious privacy concerns due to their ability to enable unauthorized tracking of users in the digital world. Existing methods for enhancing privacy fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Fahad Shamshad , Muzammal Naseer , Karthik Nandakumar

Open-set face recognition refers to a scenario in which biometric systems have incomplete knowledge of all existing subjects. Therefore, they are expected to prevent face samples of unregistered subjects from being identified as previously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Rafael Henrique Vareto , Manuel Günther , William Robson Schwartz

Biometrics systems have significantly improved person identification and authentication, playing an important role in personal, national, and global security. However, these systems might be deceived (or "spoofed") and, despite the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 David Menotti , Giovani Chiachia , Allan Pinto , William Robson Schwartz , Helio Pedrini , Alexandre Xavier Falcao , Anderson Rocha

Privacy protection has become a top priority as the proliferation of AI techniques has led to widespread collection and misuse of personal data. Anonymization and visual identity information hiding are two important facial privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Xiao He , Mingrui Zhu , Dongxin Chen , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Facial recognition has become a widely used method for authentication and identification, with applications for secure access and locating missing persons. Its success is largely attributed to deep learning, which leverages large datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Pedro Vidal , Bernardo Biesseck , Luiz E. L. Coelho , Roger Granada , David Menotti

Face recognition can benefit from the utilization of depth data captured using low-cost cameras, in particular for presentation attack detection purposes. Depth video output from these capture devices can however contain defects such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Torsten Schlett , Christian Rathgeb , Christoph Busch

Face image quality is an important factor to enable high performance face recognition systems. Face quality assessment aims at estimating the suitability of a face image for recognition. Previous work proposed supervised solutions that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Philipp Terhörst , Jan Niklas Kolf , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

The widespread sharing of face images on social media platforms and in large-scale datasets raises pressing privacy concerns, as biometric identifiers can be exploited without consent. Face anonymization seeks to generate realistic facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Luigi Celona , Simone Bianco , Raimondo Schettini

Face recognition systems are widely deployed in high-security applications such as for biometric verification at border controls. Despite their high accuracy on pristine data, it is well-known that digital manipulations, such as face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Mathias Ibsen , Lázaro J. González-Soler , Christian Rathgeb , Christoph Busch

Face recognition systems rely on learning highly discriminative and compact identity clusters to enable accurate retrieval. However, as with other surveillance-oriented technologies, such systems raise serious privacy concerns due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Mikhail Zakharov