The unprecedented outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), during early December
2019 in Wuhan, China, has quickly evolved into a global pandemic, became a matter of …

Privacy-enhancing technologies are technologies that implement fundamental data
protection principles. With respect to biometric recognition, different types of privacy …

Central banks around the world are exploring and in some cases even piloting Central Bank
Digital Currencies (CBDCs). CBDCs promise to realize a broad range of new capabilities …

Recently, biometric systems are extensively and commonly utilized for authentication and
verification applications. The security issue and the dependence on a specific biometric for …

Face recognition based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) shows superior
accuracy performance attributed to the high discriminative features extracted. Yet, the …

Biometric technologies, especially face recognition, have become an essential part of
identity management systems worldwide. In deployments of biometrics, secure storage of …

Biometric systems (BSs) have shown prominent results in providing secure authentication
protocols and a unique identification ecosystem for various applications. Over the years …

The security of information is necessary for the success of any system. So, there is a need to
have a robust mechanism to ensure the verification of any person before allowing him to …

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 …

An essential part of cloud computing, IoT, and in general the broad field of digital systems, is
constituted by the mechanisms which provide access to a number of services or …