The advancement of biometric technology has facilitated wide applications of biometrics in
law enforcement, border control, healthcare and financial identification and verification …

It is an undeniable fact that biometric recognition systems are susceptible to different
software-related or template attacks at different vulnerable points in the biometric …

The efficiency of biometric systems, in particular efficient and accurate biometric
identification, is one of the most challenging open problems in biometrics today. In addition …

Considered sensitive information by the ISO/IEC 24745, biometric data should be stored and
used in a protected way. If not, privacy and security of end-users can be compromised. Also …

Biometric data stored in automated recognition systems are at risk of attacks. This is
particularly true for large-scale biometric identification systems, where the reference …

Traditional minutiae-based fingerprint representations consist of a variable-length set of
minutiae. This necessitates a more complex comparison causing the drawback of high …

In the current context in which user authentication is the first line of defense against
emerging attacks and can be considered a defining element of any security infrastructure …

Reliable authentication of individuals is the foundation of trusted digital interaction.
Biometrics lend themselves ideally to this goal. However, biometric data must be protected …

Privacy-preserving biometric template protection schemes (BTPs) preserve biometric data
by hiding biometric representations via a privacy-preserving mechanism (such as …

Protecting minutiae-based fingerprint templates with fully homomorphic encryption has
recently been recognised as a hard problem. In this work, we evaluate state-of-the-art …