Biometric Identification

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Biometric identification studies how to recognize or verify an individual from traits such as faces, fingerprints, irises, veins, voices, heart signals, gait, and interaction patterns. Approaches range from handcrafted features and minutiae matching to deep embeddings, metric learning, transformers, multimodal fusion, and synthetic-data generation. Evaluation increasingly considers open-set recognition and realistic shifts across sessions, devices, environments, and populations, using benchmarks that measure identification, verification, and spoof detection. A central challenge is making systems reliable under those shifts while protecting privacy and resisting attacks; high accuracy on controlled data alone does not establish safe deployment.

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  1. Unveil the Mask: Jointly-Optimized Diffusion Masked Pretraining for Appearance-Agnostic Operator Verification

    Oct 26, 2026Katsuya Ogata, Ryoya Yoshiyama, Kawachi Hodaka +1Biometric IdentificationVideo Representation Learning

    The University of Osaka

  2. Identities, Not Pairs: Distribution-Free False-Accept Control for Embedding-Based Verification

    Oct 26, 2026Salim KhazemBiometric IdentificationConformal Prediction

    Talan Research Center

  3. ONOT/TONO-Print: A Paired Benchmark for Identity-Document Portrait Quality under Document Production Shift

    Oct 24, 2026Alexander VinogradovImage Quality AssessmentDistribution Shift Robustness

    IU International University of Applied Sciences

  4. PlayerEmbed: Learning Behavioral Fingerprint Representations from Raw Input Sequences

    Oct 23, 2026Tobias Schneider, Lorenz Sparrenberg, Priya Tomar +3Representation LearningBiometric Identification

    Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin, Germany · University of Bonn, Germany · Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Germany +1

  5. Diff-IrisPAD: Modeling Bona Fide Iris Distributions for Unsupervised Presentation Attack Detection

    Oct 21, 2026Geetanjali Sharma, Harsh Yadav, Tanmay Deshpande +3Biometric IdentificationReconstruction-Based Anomaly Detection

    Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India · SAFE Center, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Gjøvik, Norway

  6. Balancing Foundation Models and Trait-Specific Learning for Forehead-Crease Recognition

    Oct 21, 2026Geetanjali Sharma, Aryan Jain, Dev Nagaich +2Biometric IdentificationZero-Shot Learning

    Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India · SAFE Center, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Gjøvik, Norway

  7. Toolkit for Facial Deidentification

    Oct 19, 2026Esteban Leiva-Montenegro, Matthieu Pillot, Manfred Gonzalez-Hernandez +3Privacy-Preserving MLBiometric Identification

    Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Costa Rica · CERI/LARIS, ENSAM, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France · University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  8. Infant Fingerprints: Quality Assessment & Recognition

    Oct 14, 2026João L. H. Dall Agnol, Dalcimar Casanova, Rodrigo Minetto +4Fingerprint IdentificationBiometric Identification

    Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR), Brazil · Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

  9. Revisiting Handcrafted Minutiae Detection: A Simple and Effective Open Source Baseline for Modern Fingerprint Workflows

    Oct 8, 2026Raffaele CappelliFingerprint IdentificationBiometric Identification

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Cesena, Italy

  10. Exploiting Acoustic and Content-Oriented Speaker Verification Attacks Against Multilingual Voice Anonymization

    Oct 6, 2026Ridwan Arefeen, Ze Li, Rong Tong +2Biometric IdentificationSpeaker Verification

    Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore · Wuhan University, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China +1

  11. Is it Possible to Generate Irreversible PolyProtected Templates from Face Embeddings using System-Specific Keys?

    Oct 1, 2026Vedrana Krivokuća Hahn, Jérémy Maceiras, Sébastien MarcelBiometric IdentificationFace Recognition

    Idiap Research Institute in Martigny, Switzerland

  12. A Width-Matched Comparison of Hybrid Quantum-Classical Self-Supervised Learning for Fingerprint Recognition

    Sep 30, 2026Maria S. Edwards, Kidwell Dlamini, Pin-An Lin +2Quantum Feature MapsContrastive Learning

    Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan · Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiayi University, Chiayi City, Taiwan

  13. Template Ageing and Longitudinal Verification in Fixed-Text Keystroke Dynamics: A Subject-Disjoint Study Across Eight Weeks

    Sep 24, 2026Simon Parkinson, Saad Khan, Na Liu +1Biometric Identification

    Department of Computer Science, University of Huddersfield, HD1 3DH Huddersfield, U.K. · College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

  14. From ECG Signals to Representative-Morphology Heatmaps for Biometric Recognition

    Sep 23, 2026Athanasios Angelakis, Marta Gomez-BarreroBiometric IdentificationElectrocardiography

    BioML, Research Institute CODE, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Munich, Germany · Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  15. Learning Cardiac Features: ECG Biometrics Across Time and~Exercise

    Sep 18, 2026Luca Thiebaud, Paul Chauchat, Mustapha Ouladsine +1Biometric IdentificationElectrocardiography

    AMU, AMU SCI, DIAPRO, LIS · Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, LIS, Marseille, France · AMU SCI, AMU, LIS, DIAPRO +3

  16. Beyond EER: Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Information Leakage in Speaker De-Identification

    Sep 16, 2026Seungmin Seo, Oleg Aulov, P. Jonathon Phillips +2Privacy AuditingBiometric Identification

    Contractor Associate, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA · Chakra Consulting Inc., Clarksburg, MD, USA · National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

  17. Beyond Gait: Person Identification from Millimeter-Wave Point Clouds Across Activities of Daily Living

    Sep 8, 2026Xilai Wang, Zixiong Han, Saad Rhanmouni +3Biometric IdentificationPoint Cloud Learning

    Computational Analysis and Applications Research Group, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada

  18. Online Signature Verification Using Augmented Path Signature and T-Mamba

    Sep 8, 2026Ruiling Li, Danyu YangBiometric Identification

    College of Mathematics and Statistics, Chongqing University, China

  19. AFID: A Unified Open Framework for Automated Fingermark Identification, Quality Assessment and Feature Extraction

    Sep 7, 2026Tim Oblak, Rudolf Haraksim, Peter PeerBiometric IdentificationFingerprint Identification

    Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Ispra, Italy

  20. Facial Age Estimation for Age Fraud Detection in National ID Systems

    Sep 4, 2026Sharib Athar, Arka Koner, Chetan Naik +4Biometric Identification

    UIDAI · IIIT Hyderabad · Michigan State University

  21. EyeMakeYou: Identity-, Task-, and Subjective-State-Conditioned Diffusion for High-Frequency Gaze Synthesis

    Sep 3, 2026Kamrul Hasan, Mehedi Hasan Raju, Oleg V. KomogortsevSynthetic Data AugmentationConditional Generative Modeling

    Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, USA

  22. Video-Based Palm-Vein Authentication under Challenging Conditions

    Sep 2, 2026Xiaofeng Yan, Kechen Liu, Abhilash Venkatesh +3Biometric Identification

    Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 USA · Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA · Amazon.com Services LLC, USA +1

  23. MultiGait: A Multi-Sensor Multi-Perspective Multi-Session Biometric Inference Benchmark and its Dataset

    Sep 1, 2026Julian Todt, Felix Morsbach, Philip Dissert +1Privacy AuditingBiometric Identification

    KASTEL Security Research Labs · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

  24. Lensless Gaze Is Not Private by Default: Auditing Identity Leakage Across Disclosure Surfaces

    Aug 31, 2026Rahul Vimalkanth, Kaushik MitraPrivacy AuditingGaze Estimation

    Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

  25. Robust retinal biometrics for patient identity verification and retrieval across age and imaging devices

    Aug 31, 2026Jose D. Vargas-Quiros, Dennis Bontempi, Jeroen Vermeulen +3Biometric Identification

    Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands · Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands · Dept. of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland +4

  26. FVeinSyn: Synthetic Finger Vein Image Generator

    Aug 27, 2026Yifan Wang, Jie Gui, Adams Wai Kin Kong +6Synthetic Data GenerationSynthetic Data Augmentation

    School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210000, China · Engineering Research Center of Blockchain Application, Supervision and Management (Southeast University), Ministry of Education; Purple Mountain Laboratories, Nanjing 210000, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798 +5

  27. OpenVeinNet: Robust Open-Set Finger Vein Verification with Dynamic Snake Convolution and Graph Learning

    Aug 26, 2026Sushrut Patwardhan, Raghavendra RamachandraBiometric IdentificationOpen-Set Recognition

    SAFE Centre, Department of Information Security and Communication Technology (IIK), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Gjøvik, Norway.

  28. Open-Set Cattle Muzzle Identification: A Leakage-Controlled Benchmark and Evaluation Protocol

    Aug 22, 2026Lalit BC, Dharmendra Singh Chaudhary, Shovit NepalBiometric IdentificationAnimal Re-Identification

    Fort Valley State University, School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering, Fort Valley, GA, USA · Map Mentors, Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Lalitpur, Nepal · Tribhuvan University, Nepal +1

  29. Dorsal Hand Images for Immersive (XR) and Privacy-preserving Age Assurance and Child Safety

    Aug 21, 2026Riccardo Bovo, George Loukas, Josh P. DavisBiometric Identification

    University of Greenwich, London, UK

  30. Transfer Learning of Keystroke Dynamics for Cross-Device User Authentication

    Aug 17, 2026Nuwan Kaluarachchi, Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi, Kristen Moore +2Biometric IdentificationCross-Domain Transfer Learning

    RMIT University, Australia · CSIRO, Australia · Griffith University, Australia