Publications associées à Biométrie

PRO-Face C: Privacy-Preserving Recognition of Obfuscated Face via Feature Compensation

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lin Yuan, Xiao Pu, Yao Zhang, Hongbo Li

The advancement of face recognition technology has delivered substantial societal advantages. However, it has also raised global privacy concerns due to the ubiquitous collection and potential misuse of individuals' facial data. This presents a notable par ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Multi-IVE: Privacy Enhancement of Multiple Soft-Biometrics in Face Embeddings

Sébastien Marcel, Hatef Otroshi Shahreza

This study focuses on the protection of soft-biometric attributes related to the demographic information of individuals that can be extracted from compact representations of face images, called embeddings. We consider a state-ofthe-art technology for soft- ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

Hybrid Protection of Biometric Templates by Combining Homomorphic Encryption and Cancelable Biometrics

Sébastien Marcel, Hatef Otroshi Shahreza

Homomorphic Encryption (HE) has become a wellknown tool for privacy-preserving recognition in biometric systems. Despite some important advantages of HE (such as preservation of recognition accuracy), there are two main drawbacks in the application of HE t ...

IEEE2022

Indexing Protected Deep Face Templates by Frequent Binary Patterns

Sébastien Marcel, Hatef Otroshi Shahreza

In this work, we present a simple biometric indexing scheme which is binning and retrieving cancelable deep face templates based on frequent binary patterns. The simplicity of the proposed approach makes it applicable to unprotected as well as protected, i ...

IEEE2022

Are GAN-based Morphs Threatening Face Recognition?

Sébastien Marcel, Eklavya Sarkar, Laurent Colbois

Morphing attacks are a threat to biometric systems where the biometric reference in an identity document can be altered. This form of attack presents an important issue in applications relying on identity documents such as border security or access control ...

IEEE2022

Personalized Productive Engagement Recognition in Robot-Mediated Collaborative Learning

Barbara Bruno, Jauwairia Nasir

In this paper, we propose and compare personalized models for Productive Engagement (PE) recognition. PE is defined as the level of engagement that maximizes learning. Previously, in the context of robot-mediated collaborative learning, a framework of prod ...

2022

Open-Set Person Re-Identification through Error Resilient Recurring Gallery Building

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evgeniy Upenik

In person re-identification, individuals must be correctly identified in images that come from different cameras or are captured at different points in time. In the open-set case, the above needs be achieved for people who have not been previously recognis ...

IEEE2021

Geodesic Distance on Optimally Regularized Functional Connectomes Uncovers Individual Fingerprints

Enrico Amico

Background: Functional connectomes (FCs) have been shown to provide a reproducible individual fingerprint, which has opened the possibility of personalized medicine for neuro/psychiatric disorders. Thus, developing accurate ways to compare FCs is essential ...

MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC2021

BioLocker: A Practical Biometric Authentication Mechanism based on 3D Fingervein

Serge Vaudenay, Loïs Evan Huguenin-Dumittan, Fatma Betül Durak

We design a consecution of protocols which allows organizations to have secure strong access control of their users to their desktop machines based on biometry. It provides both strong secure authentication and privacy. Moreover, our mechanism allows the s ...

Springer, Cham2020

Generating Master Faces for Use in PerformingWolf Attacks on Face Recognition Systems

Sébastien Marcel

Due to its convenience, biometric authentication, especial face authentication, has become increasingly mainstream and thus is now a prime target for attackers. Presentation attacks and face morphing are typical types of attack. Previous research has shown ...

IEEE2020

Vulnerability Analysis of Face Morphing Attacks from Landmarks and Generative Adversarial Networks

Sébastien Marcel, Eklavya Sarkar, Laurent Colbois

Morphing attacks is a threat to biometric systems where the biometric reference in an identity document can be altered. This form of attack presents an important issue in applications relying on identity documents such as border security or access control. ...

Idiap2020

Trustworthy Face Recognition: Improving Generalization of Deep Face Presentation Attack Detection

Amir Mohammadi

The extremely high recognition accuracy achieved by modern, convolutional neural network (CNN) based face recognition (FR) systems has contributed significantly to the adoption of such systems in a variety of applications, from mundane activities like unlo ...

EPFL2020

Iris Liveness Detection Competition (LivDet-Iris) – The 2020 Edition

Sébastien Marcel, Amir Mohammadi, Priyanka Das

Launched in 2013, LivDet-Iris is an international competition series open to academia and industry with the aim to assess and report advances in iris Presentation Attack Detection (PAD). This paper presents results from the fourth competition of the series ...

IEEE2020

Learning One Class Representations for Face Presentation Attack Detection using Multi-channel Convolutional Neural Networks

Sébastien Marcel

Face recognition has evolved as a widely used biometric modality. However, its vulnerability against presentation attacks poses a significant security threat. Though presentation attack detection (PAD) methods try to address this issue, they often fail in ...

IEEE2020

GEFF: Graph embedding for functional fingerprinting

Enrico Amico

It has been well established that Functional Connectomes (FCs), as estimated from functional MRI (fMRI) data, have an individual fingerprint that can be used to identify an individual from a population (subject-identification). Although identification rate ...

2020

BioID: a Privacy-Friendly Identity Document

Serge Vaudenay, Muhammed Fatih Balli, Fatma Betül Durak

We design a suite of protocols so that a small tamper-resistant device can be used as a biometric identity document which can be scanned by authorized terminals. We target both strongly secure identification and strong privacy. Unlike biometric passports, ...

Springer2019

Learning How To Recognize Faces In Heterogeneous Environments

Tiago De Freitas Pereira

Face recognition is a mature field in biometrics in which several systems have been proposed over the last three decades. Such systems are extremely reliable under controlled recording conditions and it has been deployed in the field in critical tasks, suc ...

EPFL2019

Biometric Face Presentation Attack Detection with Multi-Channel Convolutional Neural Network

Sébastien Marcel, André Anjos, Zohreh Mostaani

Face recognition is a mainstream biometric authentication method. However, vulnerability to presentation attacks (a.k.a spoofing) limits its usability in unsupervised applications. Even though there are many methods available for tackling presentation atta ...

2020

Trustworthy speaker recognition with minimal prior knowledge using neural networks

Hannah Muckenhirn

The performance of speaker recognition systems has considerably improved in the last decade. This is mainly due to the development of Gaussian mixture model-based systems and in particular to the use of i-vectors. These systems handle relatively well noise ...

EPFL2019