2 research outputs found
Fast and Accurate Likelihood Ratio Based Biometric Comparison in the Encrypted Domain
As applications of biometric verification proliferate, users become more
vulnerable to privacy infringement. Biometric data is very privacy sensitive as
it may contain information as gender, ethnicity and health conditions which
should not be shared with third parties during the verification process.
Moreover, biometric data that has fallen into the wrong hands often leads to
identity theft. Secure biometric verification schemes try to overcome such
privacy threats. Unfortunately, existing secure solutions either introduce a
heavy computational or communication overhead or have to accept a high loss in
accuracy; both of which make them impractical in real-world settings. This
paper presents a novel approach to secure biometric verification aiming at a
practical trade-off between efficiency and accuracy, while guaranteeing full
security against honest-but-curious adversaries. The system performs
verification in the encrypted domain using elliptic curve based homomorphic
ElGamal encryption for high efficiency. Classification is based on a
log-likelihood ratio classifier which has proven to be very accurate. No
private information is leaked during the verification process using a two-party
secure protocol. Initial tests show highly accurate results that have been
computed within milliseconds range
Performances of the Likelihood-ratio Classifier based on Different Data Modelings
Abstract—The classical likelihood ratio classifier easily collapses in many biometric applications especially with independent training-test subjects. The reason lies in the inaccurate estimation of the underlying user-specific feature density. Firstly, the feature density estimation suffers from insufficient number of userspecific samples during the enrollment phase. Even if more enrollment samples are available, it is most likely that they are not reliable enough. Furthermore, it may happen that enrolled samples do not obey the Gaussian density model. Therefore, it is crucial to properly estimate the underlying user-specific feature density in the above situations. In this paper, we give an overview of several data modeling methods. Furthermore, we propose a discretized density based data model. Experimental results on FRGC face data set has shown reasonably good performance with our proposed model. Index Terms—likelihood-ratio classifier, density estimation, quantization I