Title
Stable Hash Generation for Efficient Privacy-Preserving Face Identification
Abstract
The development of large-scale facial identification systems that provide privacy protection of the enrolled subjects represents an open challenge. In the context of privacy protection, several template protection schemes have been proposed in the past. However, these schemes appear to be unsuitable for indexing (workload reduction) in biometric identification systems. More precisely, they have been utilized in identification systems performing exhaustive searches, thereby leading to degradations of the computational efficiency. In this work, we propose a privacy-preserving face identification system which utilisers a Product Quantization-based hash look-up table for indexing and retrieval of protected face templates. These face templates are protected through fully homomorphic encryption schemes, thereby guaranteeing high privacy protection of the enrolled subjects. For the best configuration, the experimental evaluation carried out over closed-set and open-set settings shows the feasibility of the proposed technique for the use in large-scale facial identification systems: a workload reduction down to 0.1% of a baseline approach performing an exhaustive search is achieved together with a low pre-selection error rate of less than 1%. In terms of biometric performance, a False Negative Identification Rate (FNIR) in range of 0.0% - 0.2% is obtained for practical False Positive Identification Rate (FPIR) values on the FEI and FERET face databases. In addition, our proposal shows competitive performance on unconstrained databases, e.g., the LFW face database. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first work presenting a competitive privacy-preserving workload reduction scheme which performs template comparisons in the encrypted domain.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TBIOM.2021.3100639
IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Biometrics,face recognition,identification,workload-reduction,hashing,secure indexing,privacy protection,fully homomorphic encryption
Journal
4
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
2637-6407
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.45
24
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dailé Osorio-Roig120.45
Christian Rathgeb220.45
Pawel Drozdowski335.21
Christoph Busch426850.22