Synthetic Iris Image Databases and Identity Leakage: Risks and Mitigation Strategies

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Main Authors: Sawilska, Ada, Trokielewicz, Mateusz
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Published: 2025
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author Sawilska, Ada
Trokielewicz, Mateusz
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Trokielewicz, Mateusz
contents This paper presents a comprehensive overview of iris image synthesis methods, which can alleviate the issues associated with gathering large, diverse datasets of biometric data from living individuals, which are considered pivotal for biometric methods development. These methods for synthesizing iris data range from traditional, hand crafted image processing-based techniques, through various iterations of GAN-based image generators, variational autoencoders (VAEs), as well as diffusion models. The potential and fidelity in iris image generation of each method is discussed and examples of inferred predictions are provided. Furthermore, the risks of individual biometric features leakage from the training sets are considered, together with possible strategies for preventing them, which have to be implemented should these generative methods be considered a valid replacement of real-world biometric datasets.
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spellingShingle Synthetic Iris Image Databases and Identity Leakage: Risks and Mitigation Strategies
Sawilska, Ada
Trokielewicz, Mateusz
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
This paper presents a comprehensive overview of iris image synthesis methods, which can alleviate the issues associated with gathering large, diverse datasets of biometric data from living individuals, which are considered pivotal for biometric methods development. These methods for synthesizing iris data range from traditional, hand crafted image processing-based techniques, through various iterations of GAN-based image generators, variational autoencoders (VAEs), as well as diffusion models. The potential and fidelity in iris image generation of each method is discussed and examples of inferred predictions are provided. Furthermore, the risks of individual biometric features leakage from the training sets are considered, together with possible strategies for preventing them, which have to be implemented should these generative methods be considered a valid replacement of real-world biometric datasets.
title Synthetic Iris Image Databases and Identity Leakage: Risks and Mitigation Strategies
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02626