With the development of laws and regulations related to privacy preservation,
it has become difficult to collect personal data to perform machine learning.
In this context, federated learning, which is distributed learning without
sharing personal data, has been proposed. In this paper, we focus on federated
learning for user authentication. We show that it is difficult to achieve both
privacy preservation and high accuracy with existing methods. To address these
challenges, we propose IPFed which is privacy-preserving federated learning
using random projection for class embedding. Furthermore, we prove that IPFed
is capable of learning equivalent to the state-of-the-art method. Experiments
on face image datasets show that IPFed can protect the privacy of personal data
while maintaining the accuracy of the state-of-the-art method.