2019/02/23 by Renjie Xie, Yanzhi Chen, Xie, Renjie +5
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · #Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning #Biometric Identification and Security #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Forensic and Genetic Research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1902.08785
openalex publication_date 2019/02/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Deep neural networks (DNN) have been a de facto standard for nowadays biometric recognition solutions. A serious, but still overlooked problem in these DNN-based recognition systems is their vulnerability against adversarial attacks. Adversarial attacks can easily cause the output of a DNN system to greatly distort with only tiny changes in its input. Such distortions can potentially lead to an unexpected match between a valid biometric and a synthetic one constructed by a strategic attacker, raising security issue. In this work, we show how this issue can be resolved by learning robust biometric features through a deep, information-theoretic framework, which builds upon the recent deep variational information bottleneck method but is carefully adapted to biometric recognition tasks. Empirical evaluation demonstrates that our method not only offers stronger robustness against adversarial attacks but also provides better recognition performance over state-of-the-art approaches.