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Biometric recognition is widely used, making the privacy and security of extracted templates a critical concern. Biometric Template Protection schemes, especially those utilizing Homomorphic Encryption, introduce significant computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Florian Bayer , Maximilian Russo , Christian Rathgeb

The prevalence of biometric authentication has been on the rise due to its ease of use and elimination of weak passwords. To date, most biometric authentication systems have been designed for on-device authentication of the device owner…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Alexander Bienstock , Daniel Escudero , Antigoni Polychroniadou , Zhen Zeng , Pranav Bhat , Ashok Singal , Prashant Sharma , Manuela Veloso

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

The recent emergence of ubiquitous, multi-platform eye tracking has raised user privacy concerns over re-identification across platforms, where a person is re-identified across multiple eye tracking-enabled platforms using personally…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Samantha Aziz , Oleg Komogortsev

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

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

In this study, we investigate fundamental trade-off among identification, secrecy, template, and privacy-leakage rates in biometric identification systems. Ignatenko and Willems (2015) studied this system assuming that the channel in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Vamoua Yachongka , Hideki Yagi

The biometric system is an automatic identification and authentication system that uses unique biological traits, such as fingerprint, face, iris, voice, retina, etc. of an individual. Of all these systems, fingerprint biometric system is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Mahesh Joshi , Bodhisatwa Mazumdar , Somnath Dey

Personal identification and authentication is very crucial in the current scenario. Biometrics plays an important role in this area. Biometric based authentication has proved superior compared to traditional password based authentication.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-02-19 V. S. Meenakshi , G. Padmavathi

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

A foundation for closing the gap between biometrics in the narrower and the broader perspective is presented trough a conceptualization of biometric systems in both perspectives. A clear distinction between verification, identification and…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-09-15 Markus Schatten , Miroslav Baca , Mirko Cubrilo

Generative AI has revolutionized modern machine learning by providing unprecedented realism, diversity, and efficiency in data generation. This technology holds immense potential for biometrics, including for securing sensitive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye , Shubhabrata Mukherjee , Reza Derakhshani

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

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

Biometric systems strive to balance security and usability. The use of multi-biometric systems combining multiple biometric modalities is usually recommended for high-security applications. However, the presentation of multiple biometric…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Florian Bayer , Christian Rathgeb

Recent fine-tuning techniques for diffusion models enable them to reproduce specific image sets, such as particular faces or artistic styles, but also introduce copyright and security risks. Dataset watermarking has been proposed to ensure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xincheng Wang , Hanchi Sun , Wenjun Sun , Kejun Xue , Wangqiu Zhou , Jianbo Zhang , Wei Sun , Dandan Zhu , Xiongkuo Min , Jun Jia , Zhijun Fang

A cancelable biometric scheme called correlation-invariant random filtering (CIRF) is known as a promising template protection scheme. This scheme transforms a biometric feature represented as an image via the 2D number theoretic transform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Takao Murakami , Tetsushi Ohki , Yosuke Kaga , Masakazu Fujio , Kenta Takahashi

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

In a biometric authentication or identification system, the matcher compares a stored and a fresh template to determine whether there is a match. This assessment is based on both a similarity score and a predefined threshold. For better…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Axel Durbet , Kevin Thiry-Atighehchi , Dorine Chagnon , Paul-Marie Grollemund

This paper presents an overview of the main topics related to biometric security technology, with the main purpose to provide a primer on this subject. Biometrics can offer greater security and convenience than traditional methods for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Marcos Faundez-Zanuy