Privacy–enhancing face biometrics: A comprehensive survey

B Meden, P Rot, P Terhörst, N Damer… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Biometric recognition technology has made significant advances over the last decade and is
now used across a number of services and applications. However, this widespread …

An overview of privacy-enhancing technologies in biometric recognition

P Melzi, C Rathgeb, R Tolosana… - ACM Computing …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Privacy-enhancing technologies are technologies that implement fundamental data
protection principles. With respect to biometric recognition, different types of privacy …

Soft biometrics: A survey: Benchmark analysis, open challenges and recommendations

B Hassan, E Izquierdo, T Piatrik - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2021 - Springer
The field of biometrics research encompasses the need to associate an identity to an
individual based on the persons physiological or behaviour traits. While the use of intrusive …

Beyond identity: What information is stored in biometric face templates?

P Terhörst, D Fährmann, N Damer… - … joint conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deeply-learned face representations enable the success of current face recognition
systems. Despite the ability of these representations to encode the identity of an individual …

Privacy-enhancing face obfuscation guided by semantic-aware attribution maps

J Li, H Zhang, S Liang, P Dai… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Face recognition technology is increasingly being integrated into our daily life, eg Face ID.
With the advancement of machine learning algorithms, the personal information such as …

On soft-biometric information stored in biometric face embeddings

P Terhörst, D Fährmann, N Damer… - … and Identity Science, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The success of modern face recognition systems is based on the advances of deeply-
learned features. These embeddings aim to encode the identity of an individual such that …

PE-MIU: A training-free privacy-enhancing face recognition approach based on minimum information units

P Terhörst, K Riehl, N Damer, P Rot, B Bortolato… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Research on soft-biometrics showed that privacy-sensitive information can be deduced from
biometric data. Utilizing biometric templates only, information about a persons gender, age …

Data protection in palmprint recognition via dynamic random invisible watermark embedding

C Liu, D Zhong, H Shao - … on Circuits and Systems for Video …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Palmprint recognition is one of the most popular biometric technologies. Recent researches
mainly focus on the recognition performance, while pay less attention to the data protection …

An attack on facial soft-biometric privacy enhancement

D Osorio-Roig, C Rathgeb… - … and Identity Science, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the recent past, different researchers have proposed privacy-enhancing face recognition
systems designed to conceal soft-biometric attributes at feature level. These works have …

Privacy evaluation protocols for the evaluation of soft-biometric privacy-enhancing technologies

P Terhörst, M Huber, N Damer, P Rot… - … conference of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Biometric data includes privacy-sensitive information, such as soft-biometrics. Soft-biometric
privacy enhancing technologies aim at limiting the possibility of deducing such information …