A Comprehensive Study of Multi-Class Alzheimer’s Classification Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning
Conference paper, International Conference on Connected Intelligence for Industrial Applications, CI2A 2026, 2026, DOI Link
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The memory and cognitive abilities of older people are significantly impacted by Alzheimer's disease. Early and accurate identification is critical to improving patient care and enabling timely intervention. Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals are the most effective method of identification. Alzheimer's disease has been identified using a variety of machine learning and deep learning techniques. These algorithms, including Decision Tree, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine, Convolutional Neural Networks, Deep Belief Networks, ResNet50, and Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM) models, have been thoroughly examined by us. Experimental results show that LightGBM outperforms the other models in terms of classification accuracy. These findings suggest that LightGBM offers an effective, non-invasive framework for real-time Alzheimer's disease detection.
Privacy-enhanced multimodal biometric authentication via deep binarization and feature-hashed projection
Raul P.K., Sandhya M., Killi B.P.R., Vallabhadas D.K.
Article, Journal of Electronic Imaging, 2026, DOI Link
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Although compared with unimodal systems, multimodal biometrics are more reliable and spoofing resistant, which has led to their growing popularity. Among various biometric traits, iris and fingerprint modalities are widely preferred for their high distinctiveness and ease of acquisition. However, protecting the stored biometric templates remains a critical concern to preserve user privacy. We propose a cancelable multimodal biometric template protection scheme based on deep binarization and feature-hashed random projection (FHRP) to secure iris and fingerprint templates. Initially, discriminative feature extraction was performed for both modalities using a pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). These features are then binarized through a deep binarization process and fused using an addition-rotation-XOR (ARX) operation to obtain a robust feature—representation. Subsequently, the fused features are transformed using FHRP to produce a secure and non-invertible template, which is stored on the server for authentication. Experimental evaluations on three publicly available datasets—Children Multimodal Biometric Database as Database-1, CASIA-V1 & FVC-2004 as Database-2, and CASIA-V3 & FVC-2006 as Database-3—demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves superior recognition accuracy and lower equal error rate compared with existing techniques and effectively safeguarding user privacy.
Cancelable scheme for fingerprint template protection using PUF and ARX Encryption
Kumar S.P., Vallabhadas D.K., Sitharam M., Inturi J.R.
Conference paper, 2026 1st International Conference on Emerging Trends in Advancements and Applications of Computational Intelligence Techniques, ETAACT 2026, 2026, DOI Link
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With the fast growth of modern technology, biometrics has become a common method of verifying a person's identity. However, a major challenge in biometric authentication is ensuring template security, which is essential to protect user privacy. To enhance this security, the original feature-based template is transformed into a pseudo-template before use. In this paper, we first extract discriminative features from the biometric trait. After feature extraction, features are then flattened and converted into secure binary templates using Physical Unclonable Function(PUF) scheme coupled with a Addition Rotation XOR (ARX) mechanism, ensuring both revocability and non-invertibility. The final fused template forms a cancelable biometric representation that protects against template compromise while preserving recognition performance. The proposed approach is evaluated on the Children Multimodal Biometric Database (CMBD), demonstrating strong privacy protection with high precision. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme achieves an Equal Error Rate (EER) of 0.014%.
Multi-algorithmic Fingerprint Authentication Using Minutiae-Based Average SIFT Descriptor
HHNTV Prasad I., Sandhya M., Mooda R., Vallabhadas D.K.
Conference paper, Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2026, DOI Link
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Multi-algorithmic Fingerprint authentication using minutia descriptor and average SIFT keypoint descriptors is a comprehensive approach for fingerprint authentication that integrates minutia descriptor and SIFT keypoint descriptors for representing fingerprint information. In this system, multiple algorithms work collaboratively on fingerprint images, each designed to gather information on an individual’s physiological biometric traits. As a first step, preprocessing is done on fingerprint images to eliminate noise. The features are extracted from these preprocessed images. The proposed algorithm will combine two feature extraction algorithms to create a feature that integrates a fingerprint image’s texture information and minutiae points. Features extracted from these various algorithms are fused to generate a unified and more reliable decision regarding the person’s identity. Here, we create a new template by combining features such as the minutia point descriptor and the average of SIFT keypoint descriptors. We performed tests on FVC 2002 DB1 and DB2 databases and obtained an EER of 1.2% and 1.4%, respectively, showing the effectiveness of the proposed multi-algorithmic fusion of two descriptors.
A Hybrid Dynamic Projection Scheme for Secure and Cancelable Fingerprint Template Protection
Vallabhadas D.K., Sai Pranav S.V.S.S., Moram S.S.S.S., Charith J., Potnuru S.N., Ram M.S.
Conference paper, 2026 1st International Conference on Emerging Trends in Advancements and Applications of Computational Intelligence Techniques, ETAACT 2026, 2026, DOI Link
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Biometric template security is a critical challenge, as compromised templates are irrevocable. This paper proposes a novel hybrid dynamic projection scheme for generating secure and cancelable fingerprint templates. Our method utilizes a ResNet-50 backbone with an ArcFace head to extract a robust 512-dimensional embedding. This embedding is then secured using a unique projection matrix, Rdyn, which is a weighted combination of a biometric-driven component (Rbio) and a user-key-driven random component (Rkey). We evaluated our system on the CASIA-FingerprintV5 dataset. The results demonstrate that our protected template achieves an Equal Error Rate (EER) of 0.467%, a minimal performance loss compared to the 0.435% EER of the raw embeddings. Furthermore, the protected system maintains a Genuine Acceptance Rate (GAR) of 98.9% at a 0.1% False Acceptance Rate (FAR), proving its effectiveness in balancing high-level security with practical accuracy.
An alignment-free secure fingerprint authentication integrated with elliptic curve signcryption scheme
Kukadiya J., Sandhya M., Vallabhadas D.K., Prasad I.H., Mooda R.
Article, Journal of Information Security and Applications, 2025, DOI Link
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Fingerprint authentication is a widely used method to verify someone's identity by analysing unique fingerprint features, such as ridges and specific points called minutiae. However, there are concerns about its vulnerability to fake fingerprints and privacy issues. Cancellable biometrics is a promising solution to tackle these concerns. It transforms fingerprint features into secure forms that cannot be reversed back to the original, even if someone gets hold of them. This paper proposes an alignment-free secure fingerprint authentication method that integrates minutiae point descriptors and Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) keypoint descriptors, enhanced with Elliptic Curve signcryption, aiming to fortify security without compromising authentication accuracy. Experimental evaluations were conducted using the Fingerprint Verification Competition (FVC) 2002 dataset, showcasing the efficacy of the proposed approach. Experimental results demonstrate a significant reduction in security risks while upholding authentication accuracy, thus affirming the effectiveness of our methodology in enhancing fingerprint authentication security.
Biometric template protection based on a cancelable convolutional neural network over iris and fingerprint
Vallabhadas D.K., Sandhya M., Reddy S.D., Satwika D., Prashanth G.L.
Article, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2024, DOI Link
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Multimodal biometric systems have gained popularity for their enhanced recognition accuracy and resistance to attacks like spoofing. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to safeguard multimodal biometric templates using a Cancelable Convolutional Neural Network (CCNN). Our method utilizes two biometric traits, the iris and fingerprint. Initially, features are extracted separately from these traits and then combined into a single feature vector. Subsequently, a CCNN is applied to reduce the size of this fused vector. Finally, the reduced vector is multiplied with a user-provided seed for enhanced cancelability. Evaluations on the Children Multimodal Biometric Database (CMBD), CASIA Iris V3, and FVC 2002 DB2 demonstrate that our method effectively balances user privacy and accuracy while maintaining a high level of precision. With an exceptionally low Equal Error Rate (EER) of 0.073% and 0.038% on both datasets. Our method fulfills the requirements of diversity, irreversibility, and revocability showcasing its efficiency in terms of security and accuracy.
Cancelable bimodal shell using fingerprint and iris
Vallabhadas D.K., Sandhya M.
Article, Journal of Electronic Imaging, 2023, DOI Link
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Authentication systems are now an important part of our daily life. Human biological, behavioral, and physical characteristics are usually applied in authenticating a person in various applications. Unimodal biometric systems have a number of limitations, such as noise sensitivity, population coverage, intra-class variations, non-universality, and vulnerability to spoofing. Multimodal biometric systems overcome these limitations and are being widely used in many real-world applications. In this work, to construct a three-dimensional (3-D) shell, we use fingerprint and iris. First, features are extracted from the fingerprint. Then, using a user key set, a two-dimensional spiral curve is generated from fingerprint features. Next, iris features are extracted using a pre-trained VGG-16 model, then feature vector-based random projection is applied to generate an iris feature vector. This generated feature vector is combined with the fingerprint shell to construct a secured 3-D shell. Finally, these fused 3-D templates are saved in the database and are used for matching. Our proposed technique has been evaluated on the three publicly available datasets, showing that it can preserve user privacy while maintaining the accuracy of the system with an equal error rate of 0.09%, 0.032%, and 0.015%.
Revocable iris templates using partial sort and randomised look-up table mapping
Sandhya M., Vallabhadas D.K., Rathod S.
Article, International Journal of Biometrics, 2023, DOI Link
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In the ongoing years, biometric systems end up helpless against the spillage of template information. If a biometric template is stolen, it is lost permanently and cannot be restored or reissued. Here, we use iris biometric because of its high accuracy. In this paper, we develop a new cancellable biometric scheme using the indexing-first-one (IFO) hashing coupled with a technique called partial sort. The IFO hashing uses new mechanisms called the P-order Hadamard product and modulo threshold function paired with the partial sort technique which has considerably strengthened it further. We used the very sophisticated CASIA-v3 database which provides us with a wide range of iris templates for our experiments. As compared to the previous cancellable schemes, the analysis of the results of these experiments provides us with good accuracy and strong resistance to various privacy and security attacks.
Multimodal biometric authentication using Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Vallabhadas D.K., Sandhya M., Sarkar S., Chandra Y.R.
Conference paper, 2023 2nd International Conference on Paradigm Shifts in Communications Embedded Systems, Machine Learning and Signal Processing, PCEMS 2023, 2023, DOI Link
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In this paper multimodal biometric system is developed using two traits iris and fingerprint. The features generated by iris and fingerprint images are fused at the feature level. The generated fused feature vector template cannot be stored directly on the server, if stored directly can lead to various privacy and security concerns. So, these templates are encrypted in such a way that even when applying any operations on the templates, the templates should be in encrypted form. So, the operations need to be performed in the encrypted domain without decrypting it, and the final result, when decrypted should again give back the correct result as if the operations are performed on the original data. Fully Homomorphic encryption (FHE) scheme is designed to satisfy the above conditions. FHE is used to compute the hamming distance between the reference and probe template in an encrypted domain. To improve accuracy rotational invariant technique is used, which solves rotational inconsistency problems. The computational speed is increased by using a batching scheme to reduce the number of operations during homomorphic multiplication. We have conducted our experiment on the IITD and CASIA dataset. The best EER is obtained in CASIA dataset of 0.01% with a computational time of 0.0152 sec per template.
Cancelable scheme for bimodal biometric authentication
Vallabhadas D.K., Morampudi M.K., Sandhya M., Maheshwari P., Kadyan M.
Article, Journal of Electronic Imaging, 2023, DOI Link
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The use of a biometric authentication system (BAS) for reliable automatic human recognition has increased exponentially over traditional authentication systems in recent years. Multimodal BAS was introduced to solve unimodal BAS's difficulties and improve security. Privacy and security are two significant concerns to be addressed in BAS, as biometric traits are irrevocable. Researchers employed cancelable biometrics in the past few years to propose several privacy-preserving BAS. We propose a privacy-preserving bimodal cancelable BAS (PPBCBAS) to overcome these problems. The traits used in our method are iris and fingerprint. Features are extracted from both the traits, and feature level fusion is done by concatenating the feature vectors of iris and fingerprint. PPBCBAS uses a quotient filter to generate the cancelable template, and the comparison is made on these transformed templates using the modified Hamming distance. PPBCBAS has been tested on three publicly available databases to analyze its efficiency. PPBCBAS satisfies the diversity, irreversibility, and revocability properties and achieves decent performance.
Securing multimodal biometric template using local random projection and homomorphic encryption
Vallabhadas D.K., Sandhya M.
Article, Journal of Information Security and Applications, 2022, DOI Link
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Due to the rapid advancement of technology, biometrics is widely used in authenticating a person. The primary issue in biometric authentication is template protection, which protects the user's privacy. To achieve this level of security, we transform the original template generated from the extracted features into a pseudo template. This paper considers two biometric traits, namely Iris and Fingerprint. First, the features are extracted from both the traits. After extracting the features, the feature vectors are compressed to reduce the size. Then the feature vectors of both the traits are fused. Later, local random projection (LRP) is applied to this template to build a revocable and un-linkable template. Finally, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is applied to this generated template to secure the user's privacy, as all operations on the template are carried on encrypted data. Our proposed method improves the accuracy of the system as it generates rotational invariant codes. This proposed method is tested on the Children Multimodal Biometric Database (CMBD), which shows that our method can maintain user privacy with a good accuracy rate. Our method achieves an EER of 0.0214%.
Leukocyte Subtyping Using Convolutional Neural Networks for Enhanced Disease Prediction
Sandhya M., Dhopavkar T., Vallabhadas D.K., Palla J., Dileep M., Bojjagani S.
Conference paper, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 2022, DOI Link
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Deep learning shown its potential in a variety of medical applications and proved as a count on by people as a step ahead approach compared to traditional machine learning models. Moreover, the other implementations of these models such as the convolutional neural networks (CNNs) provide extensive applications in the field of medicine, which usually involves processing and analysis of a large dataset. This paper aims to create a CNN model which can solve the problem of white blood cell subtyping which is a daunting one in clinical processing of blood. The manual classification of white blood cells in laboratory is a time-consuming process which gives rise to the need for an automated process to perform the task. A CNN-based machine learning model is developed to classify the leukocytes into their proper subtypes by performing tests on a dataset of around twelve thousand images of leukocytes and their types, and a wide range of parameters is evaluated. This model can automatically classify the white blood cells to save manual labor, time and improve efficiency. Further, pretrained models like Inception-v3, VGGNet and AlexNet are used for the classification, and their performance is compared and analyzed.
Deep Neural Networks with Multi-class SVM for Recognition of Cross-Spectral Iris Images
Sandhya M., Rudani U., Vallabhadas D.K., Dileep M., Bojjagani S., Pallantla S., Lakshmi Kumari P.D.S.S.
Conference paper, Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2021, DOI Link
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Iris recognition technologies applied to produce comprehensive and correct biometric identification of people in numerous large-scale data of humans. Additionally, the iris is stable over time, i.e., iris biometric knowledge offers links between biometric characteristics and people. The e-business and e-governance require more machine-driven iris recognition. It has millions of iris images that are in near-infrared illumination. It is used for people’s identity. A variety of applications for surveillance and e-business will embody iris pictures that are unit non-heritable below visible illumination. The self-learned iris features are created by the convolution neural network (CNN), give more accuracy than handcrafted feature iris recognition. In this paper, a modified iris recognition system is introduced using deep learning techniques along with multi-class SVM for matching. We use the Poly-U database, which is from 209 subjects. CNN with softmax cross-entropy loss gives the most accurate matching of testing images. This method gives better results in terms of EER. We analyzed the proposed architecture on other publicly available databases through various experiments.
A Score-Level Fusion Method for Protecting Fingerprint and Palmprint Templates
Sandhya M., Sreenivasa Rao Y., Biswajeet S., Dilip Kumar V., Anup Kumar M.
Conference paper, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 2021, DOI Link
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Today computers are in virtually everything we touch. With this increased use of computers, there is a need for secure authentication of the users using their biometric characteristics. If a biometric template is lost/stolen, it is lost permanently and can’t be reissued like traditional authentication systems using a password or token. Taking two of the well-known traits, i.e., fingerprint and palmprint into consideration, a multi-biometric system is built. Binary vectors for each of the biometric traits are constructed, calculated the match score of both of them individually then we applied score-level fusion using T-operators. As compared to the previous multi-biometric schemes, the analysis of the results of the experiments provides us with good accuracy, i.e., an EER of 6.58% was reported which shows the validity of the proposed method.