SCiFI - A System for Secure Face Identification

Abstract--We introduce SCiFI, a system for Secure Computation of Face Identification. The system performs face identification which compares faces of subjects with a database of registered faces. The identification is done in a secure way which protects both the privacy of the subjects and the confidentiality of the database. A specific application of SCiFI is reducing the privacy impact of camera based surveillance. In that scenario, SCiFI would be used in a setting which contains a server which has a set of faces of suspects, and client machines which might be cameras acquiring images in public places. The system runs a secure computation of a face recognition algorithm, which identifies if an image acquired by a client matches one of the suspects, but otherwise reveals no information to neither of the parties. Our work includes multiple contributions in different areas:

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: SP
• Authors: Margarita Osadchy, Benny Pinkas, Ayman Jarrous, Boaz Moskovich
• Keywords: Algorithm, Face Identification, Secure Computation, Security Privacy, SP 2010