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

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

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

Trustworthy Biometric Verification under Spoofing Attacks : Application to the Face Mode

Ivana Chingovska

The need for automation of the identity recognition process for a vast number of applications resulted in great advancement of biometric systems in the recent years. Yet, many studies indicate that these systems suffer from vulnerabilities to spoofing (pre ...

EPFL2016

Embedding Local Quality Measures in Minutiae-Based Biometric Recognition

Mohammad Hamed Izadi

Degradation in data quality is still a main source of errors in the modern biometric recognition systems. However, the data quality can be embedded in the recognition methods at global and local levels to build more accurate biometric systems. Local qualit ...

EPFL2016

Private Eyes: Secure Remote Biometric Authentication

Bryan Alexander Ford

We propose an efficient remote biometric authentication protocol that gives strong protection to the user’s biometric data in case of two common kinds of security breaches: (1) loss or theft of the user’s token (smart card, handheld device, etc.), giving t ...

SciTePress2015

Biometrics Evaluation Under Spoofing Attacks

Sébastien Marcel, Ivana Chingovska, André Anjos

While more accurate and reliable than ever, the trustworthiness of biometric verification systems is compromised by the emergence of spoofing attacks. Responding to this threat, numerous research publications address isolated spoofing detection, resulting ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Palm vein recognition with local texture patterns

Andrzej Drygajlo, Leila Mirmohamadsadeghi

Biometric recognition using the palm vein characteristics is emerging as a touchless and spoof-resistant hand-based means to identify individuals or to verify their identity. One of the open challenges in this field is the creation of fast and modality-dep ...

Inst Engineering Technology-Iet2014

Motion-Based Counter-Measures to Photo Attacks in Face Recognition

Sébastien Marcel, Murali Mohan Chakka, André Anjos

Identity spoofing is a contender for high-security face recognition applications. With the advent of social media and globalized search, our face images and videos are wide-spread on the internet and can be potentially used to attack biometric systems with ...

2014

A template privacy protection scheme for fingerprint minutiae descriptors

Andrzej Drygajlo, Leila Mirmohamadsadeghi

It is important in biometric person recognition systems to protect personal data and privacy of users. This paper introduces a new mechanism to revoke and protect fingerprint minutiae information, which can be used in today’s security-aware society. The re ...

2013

Biometrics & [and] Security : Combining Fingerprints, Smart Cards and Cryptography

Claude Barral

Since the beginning of this brand new century, and especially since the 2001 Sept 11 events in the U.S, several biometric technologies are considered mature enough to be a new tool for security. Generally associated to a personal device for privacy protect ...

EPFL2010

Classification with class-independent quality information for biometric verification

Krzysztof Kryszczuk

Biometric identity verification systems frequently face the challenges of non-controlled conditions of data acquisition. Under such conditions biometric signals may suffer from quality degradation due to extraneous, identity-independent factors. It has bee ...

EPFL2008

Probabilistic models for multi-classifier biometric authentication using quality measures

Jonas Richiardi

Biometric authentication can be cast as a signal processing and statistical pattern recognition problem. As such, it relies on models of signal representations that can be used to discriminate between classes. One of the assumptions typically made by the p ...

EPFL2008

Using Chimeric Users to Construct Fusion Classifiers in Biometric Authentication Tasks: An Investigation

Samy Bengio, Norman Hoon Thian Poh

Chimeric users have recently been proposed in the field of biometric person authentication as a way to overcome the problem of lack of real multimodal biometric databases as well as an important privacy issue -- the fact that too many biometric modalities ...

IEEE2006