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Performing and Detecting Backdoor Attacks on Face Recognition Algorithms

The field of biometrics, and especially face recognition, has seen a wide-spread adoption the last few years, from access control on personal devices such as phones and laptops, to automated border controls such as in airports. The stakes are increasingly ...

EPFL2024

When Your AI Becomes a Target: AI Security Incidents and Best Practices

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Kathrin Grosse

In contrast to vast academic efforts to study AI security, few real-world reports of AI security incidents exist. Released incidents prevent a thorough investigation of the attackers' motives, as crucial information about the company and AI application is ...

AAAI Press2024

PRO-Face C: Privacy-Preserving Recognition of Obfuscated Face via Feature Compensation

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lin Yuan, Xiao Pu

The advancement of face recognition technology has delivered substantial societal advantages. However, it has also raised global privacy concerns due to the ubiquitous collection and potential misuse of individuals' facial data. This presents a notable par ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

On the Theory and Practice of Modern Secure Messaging

Daniel Patrick Collins

Billions of people now have conversations daily over the Internet. A large portion of this communication takes place via secure messaging protocols that offer "end-to-end encryption'" guarantees and resilience to compromise like the widely-used Double Ratc ...

EPFL2024

Towards Visual Saliency Explanations of Face Verification

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

In the past years, deep convolutional neural networks have been pushing the frontier of face recognition (FR) techniques in both verification and identification scenarios. Despite the high accuracy, they are often criticized for lacking explainability. The ...

2024

Discriminative Deep Feature Visualization for Explainable Face Recognition

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

Despite the huge success of deep convolutional neural networks in face recognition (FR) tasks, current methods lack explainability for their predictions because of their ``black-box'' nature. In recent years, studies have been carried out to give an interp ...

2023

Recognizing distant faces

Lukas Vogelsang

As an 'early alerting' sense, one of the primary tasks for the human visual system is to recognize distant objects. In the specific context of facial identification, this ecologically important task has received surprisingly little attention. Most studies ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Explanation of Face Recognition via Saliency Maps

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

Despite the significant progress in recent years, deep face recognition is often treated as a "black box" and has been criticized for lacking explainability. It becomes increasingly important to understand the characteristics and decisions of deep face rec ...

2023

How to Boost Face Recognition with StyleGAN?

Nikita Durasov

State-of-the-art face recognition systems require vast amounts of labeled training data. Given the priority of privacy in face recognition applications, the data is limited to celebrity web crawls, which have issues such as limited numbers of identities. O ...

Ieee Computer Soc2023

Toward responsible face datasets: modeling the distribution of a disentangled latent space for sampling face images from demographic groups

Sébastien Marcel, Christophe René Joseph Ecabert, Parsa Rahimi Noshanagh

Recently, it has been exposed that some modern facial recognition systems could discriminate specific demographic groups and may lead to unfair attention with respect to various facial attributes such as gender and origin. The main reason are the biases in ...

IEEE2023

Indexing Protected Deep Face Templates by Frequent Binary Patterns

Sébastien Marcel, Hatef Otroshi Shahreza

In this work, we present a simple biometric indexing scheme which is binning and retrieving cancelable deep face templates based on frequent binary patterns. The simplicity of the proposed approach makes it applicable to unprotected as well as protected, i ...

IEEE2022

An anomaly detection approach for backdoored neural networks: face recognition as a case study

Sébastien Marcel, Alexander Carl Unnervik

Backdoor attacks allow an attacker to embed functionality jeopardizing proper behavior of any algorithm, machine learning or not. This hidden functionality can remain inactive for normal use of the algorithm until activated by the attacker. Given how steal ...

IEEE2022

Hybrid Protection of Biometric Templates by Combining Homomorphic Encryption and Cancelable Biometrics

Sébastien Marcel, Hatef Otroshi Shahreza

Homomorphic Encryption (HE) has become a wellknown tool for privacy-preserving recognition in biometric systems. Despite some important advantages of HE (such as preservation of recognition accuracy), there are two main drawbacks in the application of HE t ...

IEEE2022

A Novel Framework for Assessment of Deep Face Recognition Systems in Realistic Conditions

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

Deep convolutional neural networks have shown remarkable results on face recognition (FR). Despite their significant progress, the performance of current face recognition techniques is often assessed in benchmarks under not always realistic conditions. The ...

2022

Face Reconstruction Fromdeep Facial Embeddings Using A Convolutional Neural Network

Sébastien Marcel, Hatef Otroshi Shahreza

State-of-the-art (SOTA) face recognition systems generally use deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to extract deep features, called embeddings, from face images. The face embeddings are stored in the system's database and are used for recognition of ...

IEEE2022

On the Recognition Performance of BioHashing on state-of-the-art Face Recognition models

Sébastien Marcel, Hatef Otroshi Shahreza

Face recognition has become a popular authentication tool in recent years. Modern state-of-the-art (SOTA) face recognition methods rely on deep neural networks, which extract discriminative features from face images. Although these methods have high recogn ...

IEEE2021

Model-based 3D Face Reconstruction

Christophe René Joseph Ecabert

The human face plays an essential role in social interactions as it brings information about someone's identity, state of mind, or mood. People are, by nature, very good at catching this non-spoken information. Therefore, scientists have been interested in ...

EPFL2021

Towards Recognizing Emotion in the Latent Space

Emotion recognition is usually achieved by collecting features (physiological signals, events, facial expressions, etc.) to predict an emotional ground truth. This ground truth is arguably unreliable due to its subjective nature. In this paper, we introduc ...

IEEE2021

BioLocker: A Practical Biometric Authentication Mechanism based on 3D Fingervein

Serge Vaudenay, Fatma Betül Durak, Loïs Evan Huguenin-Dumittan

We design a consecution of protocols which allows organizations to have secure strong access control of their users to their desktop machines based on biometry. It provides both strong secure authentication and privacy. Moreover, our mechanism allows the s ...

Springer, Cham2020

Generating Master Faces for Use in PerformingWolf Attacks on Face Recognition Systems

Sébastien Marcel

Due to its convenience, biometric authentication, especial face authentication, has become increasingly mainstream and thus is now a prime target for attackers. Presentation attacks and face morphing are typical types of attack. Previous research has shown ...

IEEE2020