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We present Blind-Match, a novel biometric identification system that leverages homomorphic encryption (HE) for efficient and privacy-preserving 1:N matching. Blind-Match introduces a HE-optimized cosine similarity computation method, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hyunmin Choi , Jiwon Kim , Chiyoung Song , Simon S. Woo , Hyoungshick Kim

Face recognition is central to many authentication, security, and personalized applications. Yet, it suffers from significant privacy risks, particularly arising from unauthorized access to sensitive biometric data. This paper introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wei Ao , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

In today's data-driven analytics landscape, deep learning has become a powerful tool, with latent representations, known as embeddings, playing a central role in several applications. In the face analytics domain, such embeddings are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Arjun Ramesh Kaushik , Bharat Chandra Yalavarthi , Arun Ross , Vishnu Boddeti , Nalini Ratha

In this paper we address the issues of using edge detection techniques on facial images to produce cancellable biometric templates and a novel method for template verification against tampering. With increasing use of biometrics, there is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-01-23 Manoj Krishnaswamy , G. Hemantha Kumar

Since the first theoretically feasible full homomorphic encryption (FHE) scheme was proposed in 2009, great progress has been achieved. These improvements have made FHE schemes come off the paper and become quite useful in solving some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yuqi Guo , Lin Li , Zhongxiang Zheng , Hanrui Yun , Ruoyan Zhang , Xiaolin Chang , Zhixuan Gao

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) represents a paradigm shift in cryptography, enabling computation directly on encrypted data and unlocking privacy-critical computation. Despite being increasingly deployed in real platforms, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Rian Adam Rajagede , Yan Solihin

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

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

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) has experienced significant development and continuous breakthroughs in theory, enabling its widespread application in various fields, like outsourcing computation and secure multi-party computing, in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yanwei Gong , Xiaolin Chang , Jelena Mišić , Vojislav B. Mišić , Jianhua Wang , Haoran Zhu

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

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training while keeping sensitive data on clients' devices, but local model updates can still leak private information. Hybrid Homomorphic Encryption (HHE) has recently been applied to FL to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ivan Costa , Pedro Correia , Ivone Amorim , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

Performing smart computations in a context of cloud computing and big data is highly appreciated today. Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is a smart category of encryption schemes that allows working with the data in its encrypted form. It…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Ahmed El-Yahyaoui , Mohamed Dafir Ech-Chrif El Kettani

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

Biometrics deal with automated methods of identifying a person or verifying the identity of a person based on physiological or behavioral characteristics. Visual cryptography is a secret sharing scheme where a secret image is encrypted into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-04-13 P. S. Revenkar , Anisa Anjum , W. Z. Gandhare

In this paper, a hardware architecture of a multimodal biometric system is presented that massively exploits the inherent parallelism. The proposed system is based on multiple biometric fusion that uses two biometric traits, fingerprint and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Tariq M Khan

Biometric technologies, especially face recognition, have become an essential part of identity management systems worldwide. In deployments of biometrics, secure storage of biometric information is necessary in order to protect the users'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Christian Rathgeb , Johannes Merkle , Johanna Scholz , Benjamin Tams , Vanessa Nesterowicz

Federated Learning (FL) is susceptible to privacy attacks, such as data reconstruction attacks, in which a semi-honest server or a malicious client infers information about other clients' datasets from their model updates or gradients. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Abdullah Al Omar , Xin Yang , Euijin Choo , Omid Ardakanian

Recent developments in hardware, computer graphics, and AI may soon enable AR/VR head-mounted displays (HMDs) to become everyday devices like smartphones and tablets. Eye trackers within HMDs provide a special opportunity for such setups as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Mengdi Wang , Efe Bozkir , Enkelejda Kasneci

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is one of the most promising technologies for privacy protection as it allows an arbitrary number of function computations over encrypted data. However, the computational cost of these FHE systems limits…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Toufique Morshed , Md Momin Al Aziz , Noman Mohammed

Face recognition is a widely-used technique for identification or verification, where a verifier checks whether a face image matches anyone stored in a database. However, in scenarios where the database is held by a third party, such as a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jianli Bai , Xiaowu Zhang , Xiangfu Song , Hang Shao , Qifan Wang , Shujie Cui , Giovanni Russello