Protecting Face Recognition Templates based on Embeddings
Description
We proposed 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 template, using a mapping based on multivariate polynomials parameterised by user-specific coefficients and exponents.
Publications
Krivokuca, V. and Marcel, S. (2022). Towards Protecting Face Embeddings in Mobile Face Verification Scenarios. IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science.
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Advantages
PolyProtect can be tuned to achieve a satisfactory trade-off between the recognition accuracy of the PolyProtected face verification system and the irreversibility of the PolyProtected templates. Furthermore, PolyProtected templates are shown to be effectively unlinkable, especially if the user-specific parameters employed in the PolyProtect mapping are selected in a non-naive manner.
Applications
- Face Recognition
Patent
- A method for protecting biometric templates, and a system and method for verifying a speaker's identity
- V. Krivokuca Hahn, S. Marcel
US 11,514,918 / EP 3719679 (ref. IDIAP-11)
Technology Readiness Level
TRL 5
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