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Table 1 Notations and their descriptions

From: Cancelable biometric schemes for Euclidean metric and Cosine metric

Notations

Descriptions

w

Feature vector

u

Hashcode vector

U

The set of sub-vectors of hashcode vector

d

The sub-vector length in Cosine LSH-based scheme

v

Protected template

n

The length of feature

N

N-to-one mapping

l

The length of template

k

The number of LSH times

I

The vector consisted of k LSH outputs

M

Prime number

A, B

Tokens (secret key) of the user

\(h(\cdot )\)

Locality sensitive hashing (LSH)

c

Parameter of Euclidean LSH

x, y

Parameters of LSH

\(\tau\)

Threshold

\(hd_{nor}\)

The normalized hamming distance between protected templates

S

The similarity score between protected templates