Photo- and video-realistic generation techniques have become a reality following the advent of deep neural networks. Consequently, there are immense concerns regarding the difficulty in differentiating what content is real ...

Ear characteristic is a promising biometric modality that has demonstrated good biometric performance. In this paper, we investigate a novel and challenging problem to verify a subject (or user) based on the ear characteristics ...

The prevalence of visual impairment around the world is rapidly increasing, causing large numbers of people to wear glasses. Glasses are generally considered an important noise source in iris recognition; under objective ...

Morphing attacks have posed a severe threat to Face Recognition System (FRS). Despite the number of advancements reported in recent works, we note serious open issues such as independent benchmarking, generalizability ...

The growing scale and number of biometric deployments around the world necessitates research into technologies which facilitate fast identification queries and high discriminative power. In this context, this article ...

Well-known vulnerabilities of voice-based biometrics are impersonation, replay attacks, artificial signals/speech synthesis, and voice conversion. Among these, voice impersonation is the obvious and simplest way of attack ...

The data security and privacy of enrolled subjects is a critical requirement expected from biometric systems. This paper addresses said topic in facial biometric identification. In order to fulfil the properties of ...

In a biometric authentication system using protected templates, a pseudonymous identifier is the part of a protected template that can be directly compared. Each compared pair of pseudonymous identifiers results in a ...