AMB-FHE: Adaptive Multi-biometric Fusion with Fully Homomorphic Encryption

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Main Authors: Bayer, Florian, Rathgeb, Christian
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Published: 2025
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author Bayer, Florian
Rathgeb, Christian
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Rathgeb, Christian
contents Biometric systems strive to balance security and usability. The use of multi-biometric systems combining multiple biometric modalities is usually recommended for high-security applications. However, the presentation of multiple biometric modalities can impair the user-friendliness of the overall system and might not be necessary in all cases. In this work, we present a simple but flexible approach to increase the privacy protection of homomorphically encrypted multi-biometric reference templates while enabling adaptation to security requirements at run-time: An adaptive multi-biometric fusion with fully homomorphic encryption (AMB-FHE). AMB-FHE is benchmarked against a bimodal biometric database consisting of the CASIA iris and MCYT fingerprint datasets using deep neural networks for feature extraction. Our contribution is easy to implement and increases the flexibility of biometric authentication while offering increased privacy protection through joint encryption of templates from multiple modalities.
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spellingShingle AMB-FHE: Adaptive Multi-biometric Fusion with Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Bayer, Florian
Rathgeb, Christian
Cryptography and Security
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Biometric systems strive to balance security and usability. The use of multi-biometric systems combining multiple biometric modalities is usually recommended for high-security applications. However, the presentation of multiple biometric modalities can impair the user-friendliness of the overall system and might not be necessary in all cases. In this work, we present a simple but flexible approach to increase the privacy protection of homomorphically encrypted multi-biometric reference templates while enabling adaptation to security requirements at run-time: An adaptive multi-biometric fusion with fully homomorphic encryption (AMB-FHE). AMB-FHE is benchmarked against a bimodal biometric database consisting of the CASIA iris and MCYT fingerprint datasets using deep neural networks for feature extraction. Our contribution is easy to implement and increases the flexibility of biometric authentication while offering increased privacy protection through joint encryption of templates from multiple modalities.
title AMB-FHE: Adaptive Multi-biometric Fusion with Fully Homomorphic Encryption
topic Cryptography and Security
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23949