AdaptPFL: Unlocking Cross-Device Palmprint Recognition via Adaptive Personalized Federated Learning with Feature Decoupling
AdaptPFL: Unlocking Cross-Device Palmprint Recognition via Adaptive Personalized Federated Learning with Feature Decoupling
Zirui Zhang, Donghai Guan, Çetin Kaya Koç, Jie Wen, Qi Zhu
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 7074-7082.
https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2025/787
Contactless palmprint recognition has recently emerged as a promising biometric technology. However, traditional methods that require sharing user data introduce substantial security risks. While federated learning offers privacy-preserving solutions, it often compromises recognition accuracy due to feature distribution drift caused by external factors such as lighting and devices. To address this issue, we propose an adaptive personalized federated learning framework (AdaptPFL). The central innovation lies in decomposing palmprint features into identity-related and contextual-related components using a feature decoupling mechanism. This design isolates the influence of external environmental factors on identity recognition through de-entanglement. Furthermore, two adaptive aggregation strategies are introduced to correct client drift: (1) Intra-Local Adaptive Aggregation (ILAA), which addresses intra-client drift by adaptively combining the two decoupled feature types; (2) Global-Local Adaptive Aggregation (GLAA), which corrects inter-client drift by adaptively aggregating model parameters. Experimental results demonstrate that AdaptPFL achieves superior performance compared to existing state-of-the-art methods.
Keywords:
Machine Learning: ML: Federated learning
Computer Vision: CV: Biometrics, face, gesture and pose recognition
Machine Learning: ML: Deep learning architectures
Machine Learning: ML: Feature extraction, selection and dimensionality reduction
