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Record W4416339674 · doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.3360

A keyless multimodal-based user authentication scheme using generative adversarial networks

2025· article· en· W4416339674 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenuePeerJ Computer Science · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicBiometric Identification and Security
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBiometricsAuthentication (law)Adversarial systemCode (set theory)Pattern recognition (psychology)Iris recognitionTransformation (genetics)Generative adversarial network

Abstract

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Biometrics are increasingly used for access control, fraud detection, and authentication systems. Nevertheless, attackers can deceive such systems using forged biometrics. This research proposes a novel method that makes biometric security systems more resilient to such attacks. The proposed method transforms the user’s biometric data into an irreversible code to protect the original data. This code combines data from multiple biometric modalities, making fabricating a false biometric harder. Additionally, the proposed method does not depend on any secret keys, which helps avoid cases of stolen tokens. The proposed method utilizes the generative adversarial network (GAN) to generate synthetic biometric templates from multiple modalities, which is considered a transformation function for biometric data. Three fusion levels are presented; features from multiple biometric modalities are extracted first in each fusion level. Subsequently, the features train a generative adversarial network to produce synthesized biometric templates. These synthesized templates serve as secure substitutes for the original biometrics during authentication, preventing direct exposure of raw biometric data. We evaluated our methods on the CASIA-V3-Internal and MMU1 iris datasets and the AT&T (ORL) and FERET face datasets. The results showed that our proposed methods can achieve higher accuracy, usability, and improved security compared to a single biometric modality. The proposed feature-level, GAN-based, and decision-level fusion schemes achieved 2.03%, 0.82%, and 0.0297% error rates, respectively, for CASIA and ORL datasets and 1.53%, 0.80%, and 0.0313% error rates, respectively, for MMU1 and FERET datasets. Moreover, we have demonstrated that our method resists pre-image and correlation attacks.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.853
Threshold uncertainty score0.987

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.006
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.292
Teacher spread0.271 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it