Privacy protection method in face authentication system based on edge calculation

The invention belongs to the technical field of privacy protection in cloud computing and discloses a privacy protection method in face authentication system based on edge calculation. The method comprises the steps that: a camera collects a face image and uploads the face image to a connected edge computing node, an authority assigning mechanism sends a permission vector Li of a user to the edgecomputing node after collecting user face information, an edge computing device carries out feature extraction on a face image of a user requesting registration to obtain a feature vector by using a method based on a deep convolutional neural network, a safe nearest neighbor algorithm is performed to encrypt the feature vector of a registered user, and a secret sharing homomorphic algorithm is performed and n sub-secrets are generated according to the feature vector and are distributively stored in n edge computing devices. The direct upload of sensitive data to a cloud server is avoided, theprivacy of the face data i