Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for biometric-based authentication. When an input image representing biometric information of a person to be authenticated is received, a feature vector of the input image is generated based on the biometric information captured in the input image via a convolution neural network (CNN) that is realized using one or more linear activation functions. The person is authenticated based on the feature vector in accordance with a biometric-based recognition model.