Facial biometrics play a crucial role in identity verification, yet classical approaches face challenges related to computational complexity and security vulnerabilities. This paper explores the integration of quantum computing with eigenface-based face verification to enhance efficiency and security. By utilizing the advantages of Quantum Principal Component Analysis (QPCA), we achieve exponential speedups in eigenvalue decomposition, significantly reducing the computational burden of high-dimensional facial data processing. Our hybrid classical-quantum approach optimizes quantum state encoding and similarity measurement via the Swap Test techniques. Experimental results demonstrate improved verification accuracy and scalability compared to classical eigenfaces, particularly for large databases. Despite current hardware constraints, our findings establish a foundational framework for quantum-enhanced biometric systems. This work highlights the potential of quantum computing in facial recognition, and prepares the way for more efficient, secure, and scalable biometric authentication systems.
Facial biometrics play a crucial role in identity verification, yet classical approaches face challenges related to computational complexity and security vulnerabilities. This paper explores the integration of quantum computing with eigenface-based face verification to enhance efficiency and security. By utilizing the advantages of Quantum Principal Component Analysis (QPCA), we achieve exponential speedups in eigenvalue decomposition, significantly reducing the computational burden of high-dimensional facial data processing. Our hybrid classical-quantum approach optimizes quantum state encoding and similarity measurement via the Swap Test techniques. Experimental results demonstrate improved verification accuracy and scalability compared to classical eigenfaces, particularly for large databases. Despite current hardware constraints, our findings establish a foundational framework for quantum-enhanced biometric systems. This work highlights the potential of quantum computing in facial recognition, and prepares the way for more efficient, secure, and scalable biometric authentication systems.
This paper presents a hybrid classical-quantum algorithm for face biometric verification that enhances the traditional eigenface method using Quantum Principal Component Analysis (QPCA). Classical preprocessing is used for image normalization and mean subtraction, while QPCA performs efficient eigen decomposition of facial data. Quantum projection and similarity measurement are implemented using SWAP test circuits, enabling exponential speedup in highdimensional operations. The proposed system significantly reduces computational complexity, particularly in eigenvalue decomposition, without compromising recognition accuracy. Our implementation demonstrates measurably improved verification performance compared to classical methods, while substantially reducing processing time. Simulation results on reduced-size facial datasets validate the feasibility and computational advantages of our approach. Comparative analysis demonstrates scalability advantages for high-resolution images and large datasets. This work lays a foundation for efficient and secure biometric authentication systems by utilizing the quantum computing advancements.
Face recognition systems are widely used for biometric authentication but face two major problems. First, processing high-resolution images and large databases requires extensive computational time. Second, emerging quantum computers threaten to break the encryption methods that protect stored facial templates. Quantum computers will soon be able to decrypt current security systems, putting biometric data at permanent risk since facial features cannot be changed like passwords. This paper presents a solution that uses quantum computing to speed up face recognition while adding quantum-resistant security. It applies quantum principal component analysis (QPCA) and the SWAP test to reduce the computational complexity and implement lattice-based cryptography, which quantum computers cannot break. Experimental evaluation demonstrates a significant overall speedup with improved accuracy. The proposed framework achieves a significant improvement in performance, provides 125-bit security against quantum attacks and compresses the data storage requirements significantly. These results demonstrate that quantum-enhanced face recognition can solve both the speed and security challenges facing current biometric systems, making it practical for real-world deployment as quantum technology advances.
Hybrid quantum methods have received limited study for resource-constrained facial biometrics. We present a hybrid quantum-classical facial recognition pipeline designed to run on standard computing hardware. Images undergo gamma correction, contrast enhancement, and principal component analysis before their features are encoded into an eight-qubit variational quantum classifier. Classical image matching then performs recognition. In experiments with 50,000 images, comprising 25,000 faces from CelebA and 25,000 non-face images from CIFAR-10, the method outperformed the reported CPU-trained FaceNet baseline in accuracy and training efficiency. The pipeline was also evaluated on GPU and quantum hardware. In an attendance monitoring deployment at Mahindra University in collaboration with Lloyds Technology Centre, CPU inference took 0.2 to 0.5 seconds per person, and the system remained robust to the use of spectacles. These findings support the feasibility of deploying hybrid quantum methods for facial recognition on existing CPU hardware.
Biometric authentication systems have come a long way in terms of accuracy and reliability, but they still suffer from computational efficiency and security issues constraints. This paper, examines the fusion of quantum computing with multimodal biometric authentication in order to improve the rate of recognition, the processing rate and it’s resistance to adversarial attacks. We work with quantum machine learning models like Variational Quantum Classifiers (VQC), and Quantum Neural Networks (QNN), to process fingerprint, iris, facial recognition datasets. Detailed comparison with conventional schemes indicates the advantage over the classical counterparts in terms of the authentication accuracy and the computation efficiency, respectively. Quantum-enhanced biometric security is verified by experimental results.
The quantum data encoding techniques enable us to translate the classical data into the quantum states so that quantum algorithms and operations can be performed on the dataset. This paper identifies the key parameters which help to decide the most suitable data encoding technique for quantum-based face biometric systems. In this paper, four popular quantum data encoding approaches are considered: basic encoding, amplitude encoding, angle encoding and Hamiltonian encoding. Each method is evaluated based on its ability to handle high-dimensional facial data, circuit complexity, resource requirements, and potential quantum advantages. The paper also presents performance evaluations of these encoding techniques across specific face biometric tasks including face detection, verification, expression recognition, and facial data search. The study found that the amplitude encoding is most practical approach for near-term quantum face biometric systems. It concludes by identifying key challenges in quantum biometric systems and suggesting future research directions.
Face recognition has become an essential biometric technology for applications such as security monitoring, user authentication, and intelligent surveillance systems. Conventional approaches based on deep neural networks, particularly convolution-based architectures, provide high recognition performance but often demand considerable computational resources and extended training durations as network complexity increases. To overcome these challenges, Quantum Machine Learning (QML) utilizes quantum computing concepts, including quantum superposition and entangled states, to achieve efficient feature representation and processing. This paper presents a Hybrid Quantum-Classical Face Recognition System built on a Multi-Gate Quantum Convolutional Neural Network (MG-QCNN). The proposed framework employs a 4-qubit variational quantum circuit that incorporates RY state encoding together with RX, RZ, and CNOT quantum operations to extract discriminative facial representations. In addition, a structural ablation analysis is conducted to investigate the influence of individual quantum components on the overall recognition capability of the model. To enhance spatial feature learning and classification performance, several classical neural network layers, namely convolution, batch normalization, max-pooling, dropout, and fully connected layers, are integrated after the quantum feature extraction stage. Within the hybrid framework, the quantum circuit is responsible for generating meaningful feature representations, whereas the classical neural network performs feature refinement and final identity classification. The framework is further combined with the DeepFace verification approach to perform facial similarity analysis and identity verification. Moreover, an Open-Set Face Recognition mechanism is incorporated to determine if an input facial image corresponds to a registered identity or represents an unseen individual. This capability increases system reliability and supports accurate unknown-person identification