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Face Presentation Attack Detection by Excavating Causal Clues and Adapting Embedding Statistics

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023-08-29 v1

Abstract

Recent face presentation attack detection (PAD) leverages domain adaptation (DA) and domain generalization (DG) techniques to address performance degradation on unknown domains. However, DA-based PAD methods require access to unlabeled target data, while most DG-based PAD solutions rely on a priori, i.e., known domain labels. Moreover, most DA-/DG-based methods are computationally intensive, demanding complex model architectures and/or multi-stage training processes. This paper proposes to model face PAD as a compound DG task from a causal perspective, linking it to model optimization. We excavate the causal factors hidden in the high-level representation via counterfactual intervention. Moreover, we introduce a class-guided MixStyle to enrich feature-level data distribution within classes instead of focusing on domain information. Both class-guided MixStyle and counterfactual intervention components introduce no extra trainable parameters and negligible computational resources. Extensive cross-dataset and analytic experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our method compared to state-of-the-art PADs. The implementation and the trained weights are publicly available.

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@article{arxiv.2308.14551,
  title  = {Face Presentation Attack Detection by Excavating Causal Clues and Adapting Embedding Statistics},
  author = {Meiling Fang and Naser Damer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.14551},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Accepted at WACV 2024

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