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Cancelable biometrics refers to a group of techniques in which the biometric inputs are transformed intentionally using a key before processing or storage. This transformation is repeatable enabling subsequent biometric comparisons. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Mahdi Ghafourian , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Ignacio Serna , Aythami Morales

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

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

Face recognition technology has demonstrated tremendous progress over the past few years, primarily due to advances in representation learning. As we witness the widespread adoption of these systems, it is imperative to consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

Large vision models based in deep learning architectures have been consistently advancing the state-of-the-art in biometric recognition. However, three weaknesses are commonly reported for such kind of approaches: 1) their extreme demands…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Henrique Jesus , Hugo Proença

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

This work enhances traditional authentication systems based on Personal Identification Numbers (PIN) and One-Time Passwords (OTP) through the incorporation of biometric information as a second level of user authentication. In our proposed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Julian Fierrez

Deeply-learned face representations enable the success of current face recognition systems. Despite the ability of these representations to encode the identity of an individual, recent works have shown that more information is stored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Philipp Terhörst , Daniel Fährmann , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

Traditional authentication systems that rely on simple passwords, PIN numbers or tokens have many security issues, like easily guessed passwords, PIN numbers written on the back of cards, etc. Thus, biometric authentication methods that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Richard Brown , Gueltoum Bendiab , Stavros Shiaeles , Bogdan Ghita

Biometric data, such as face images, are often associated with sensitive information (e.g medical, financial, personal government records). Hence, a data breach in a system storing such information can have devastating consequences. Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Reena Zelenkova , Jack Swallow , M. A. P. Chamikara , Dongxi Liu , Mohan Baruwal Chhetri , Seyit Camtepe , Marthie Grobler , Mahathir Almashor

The paper studies the problem of securely storing biometric passwords, such as fingerprints and irises. With the help of coding theory Juels and Wattenberg derived in 1999 a scheme where similar input strings will be accepted as the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-31 Davide Schipani , Joachim Rosenthal

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

The proliferation of online biometric authentication has necessitated security requirements of biometric templates. The existing secure biometric authentication schemes feature a server-centric model, where a service provider maintains a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Kai Zhou , Jian Ren

In this paper, we propose a new biometric verification and template protection system which we call the THRIVE system. The system includes novel enrollment and authentication protocols based on threshold homomorphic cryptosystem where the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Cagatay Karabat , Mehmet Sabir Kiraz , Hakan Erdogan , Erkay Savas

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

This paper proposes a non-interactive end-to-end solution for secure fusion and matching of biometric templates using fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). Given a pair of encrypted feature vectors, we perform the following ciphertext…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Luke Sperling , Nalini Ratha , Arun Ross , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) provides strong technical protections to individuals from interferences. Governments and law enforcement agencies around the world have however raised concerns that E2EE also allows illegal content to be shared…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Shubham Jain , Ana-Maria Cretu , Antoine Cully , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

Cancelable Biometrics (CB) stands for a range of biometric transformation schemes combining biometrics with user specific tokens to generate secure templates. Required properties are the irreversibility, unlikability and recognition…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Patrick Lacharme , Kevin Thiry-Atighehchi

Biometric systems based on Machine learning and Deep learning are being extensively used as authentication mechanisms in resource-constrained environments like smartphones and other small computing devices. These AI-powered facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Mohit Raghavendra , Pravan Omprakash , B R Mukesh , Sowmya Kamath