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17 March 2008 A hybrid approach for face template protection
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Abstract
Biometric template protection is one of the important issues in deploying a practical biometric system. To tackle this problem, many algorithms have been reported in recent years, most of them being applicable to fingerprint biometric. Since the content and representation of fingerprint template is different from templates of other modalities such as face, the fingerprint template protection algorithms cannot be directly applied to face template. Moreover, we believe that no single template protection method is capable of satisfying the diversity, revocability, security and performance requirements. We propose a three-step cancelable framework which is a hybrid approach for face template protection. This hybrid algorithm is based on the random projection, class distribution preserving transform and hash function. Two publicly available face databases, namely FERET and CMU-PIE, are used for evaluating the template protection scheme. Experimental results show that the proposed method maintains good template discriminability, resulting in good recognition performance. A comparison with the recently developed random multispace quantization (RMQ) biohashing algorithm shows that our method outperforms the RMQ algorithm.
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Y. C. Feng, Pong C. Yuen, and Anil K. Jain "A hybrid approach for face template protection", Proc. SPIE 6944, Biometric Technology for Human Identification V, 694408 (17 March 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.778652
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KEYWORDS
Biometrics

Databases

Binary data

Algorithm development

Detection and tracking algorithms

Information security

Computer security

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