Training-free Dimensionality Reduction via Feature Truncation: Enhancing Efficiency in Privacy-preserving Multi-Biometric Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11419v1
• Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 11:49:19 GMT
• Title: Training-free Dimensionality Reduction via Feature Truncation: Enhancing Efficiency in Privacy-preserving Multi-Biometric Systems
• Authors: Florian Bayer, Maximilian Russo, Christian Rathgeb,
• Abstract summary: Biometric recognition is widely used, making the privacy and security of extracted templates a critical concern.<n>Recent advances in deep neural networks have enabled state-of-the-art feature extraction for face, fingerprint, and iris modalities.<n>This work investigates the biometric performance of reduced multi-biometric template sizes.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Biometric recognition is widely used, making the privacy and security of extracted templates a critical concern. Biometric Template Protection schemes, especially those utilizing Homomorphic Encryption, introduce significant computational challenges due to increased workload. Recent advances in deep neural networks have enabled state-of-the-art feature extraction for face, fingerprint, and iris modalities. The ubiquity and affordability of biometric sensors further facilitate multi-modal fusion, which can enhance security by combining features from different modalities. This work investigates the biometric performance of reduced multi-biometric template sizes. Experiments are conducted on an in-house virtual multi-biometric database, derived from DNN-extracted features for face, fingerprint, and iris, using the FRGC, MCYT, and CASIA databases. The evaluated approaches are (i) explainable and straightforward to implement under encryption, (ii) training-free, and (iii) capable of generalization. Dimensionality reduction of feature vectors leads to fewer operations in the Homomorphic Encryption (HE) domain, enabling more efficient encrypted processing while maintaining biometric accuracy and security at a level equivalent to or exceeding single-biometric recognition. Our results demonstrate that, by fusing feature vectors from multiple modalities, template size can be reduced by 67 % with no loss in Equal Error Rate (EER) compared to the best-performing single modality.

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