High-Performance Face Identification Using Randomly Selected Channels from Hyperspectral Images

With the recent development of information technology, the importance of protecting personal information has increased. Because of the vulnerability in passwords, biometric authentication is now being used as a method of personal information protection. However, biometric authentication has the possibility of malicious authentication due to the emergence of technology that can generate biometric data that is difficult to duplicate. Therefore, this study aimed to solve the security problems posed by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in biometric authentication by using Hyperspectral Images (HSI). We searched for solutions to the problems identified in previous studies, such as the inability to correctly identify individuals who have not been previously learned and the length of time required for identification. In this paper, we used three channels of data randomly selected from hyperspectral face images for learning to identify individuals by binary classification into “learned subject (class)” and “unlearned subjects (classes)”. In this case, discriminators based on the least-squares generative adversarial network (LSGAN) model was developed for each class using three randomly selected channels of data from the HSI for two class classification. The proposed method significantly reduced the identification time and achieved very high discrimination accuracy in all classes. In addition, the results showed high accuracy throughout multiple face identification experiments.