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Due to its convenience, biometric authentication, especial face authentication, has become increasingly mainstream and thus is now a prime target for attackers. Presentation attacks and face morphing are typical types of attack. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Huy H. Nguyen , Junichi Yamagishi , Isao Echizen , Sébastien Marcel

With the rapid progress over the past five years, face authentication has become the most pervasive biometric recognition method. Thanks to the high-accuracy recognition performance and user-friendly usage, automatic face recognition (AFR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Chenqi Kong , Shiqi Wang , Haoliang Li

Video-based eye trackers capture the iris biometric and enable authentication to secure user identity. However, biometric authentication is susceptible to spoofing another user's identity through physical or digital manipulation. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Anish S. Narkar , Brendan David-John

As tools for content editing mature, and artificial intelligence (AI) based algorithms for synthesizing media grow, the presence of manipulated content across online media is increasing. This phenomenon causes the spread of misinformation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Trisha Mittal , Ritwik Sinha , Viswanathan Swaminathan , John Collomosse , Dinesh Manocha

In this paper, we study the vulnerability of anti-spoofing methods based on deep learning against adversarial perturbations. We first show that attacking a CNN-based anti-spoofing face authentication system turns out to be a difficult task.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Bowen Zhang , Benedetta Tondi , Mauro Barni

Face recognition systems are increasingly deployed across a wide range of applications, including smartphone authentication, access control, and border security. However, these systems remain vulnerable to presentation attacks (PAs), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Manasa , Sushrut Patwardhan , Narayan Vetrekar , Pavan Kumar , R. S. Gad , Raghavendra Ramachandra

Face Anti-Spoofing (FAS) is crucial to safeguard Face Recognition (FR) Systems. In real-world scenarios, FRs are confronted with both physical and digital attacks. However, existing algorithms often address only one type of attack at a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Haocheng Yuan , Ajian Liu , Junze Zheng , Jun Wan , Jiankang Deng , Sergio Escalera , Hugo Jair Escalante , Isabelle Guyon , Zhen Lei

Face authentication systems require a robust anti-spoofing module as they can be deceived by fabricating spoof images of authorized users. Most recent face anti-spoofing methods rely on optimized architectures and training objectives to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Davide Belli , Debasmit Das , Bence Major , Fatih Porikli

Face recognition technology has been widely used in daily interactive applications such as checking-in and mobile payment due to its convenience and high accuracy. However, its vulnerability to presentation attacks (PAs) limits its reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Zitong Yu , Chenxu Zhao , Zhen Lei

Protecting digital identities of human face from various attack vectors is paramount, and face anti-spoofing plays a crucial role in this endeavor. Current approaches primarily focus on detecting spoofing attempts within individual frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Xiang Xu , Tianchen Zhao , Zheng Zhang , Zhihua Li , Jon Wu , Alessandro Achille , Mani Srivastava

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) is one of the most natural and convenient means of biometric person recognition. Unfortunately, just like all other biometric systems, ASV is vulnerable to spoofing, also referred to as "presentation…

Face recognition technology has dramatically transformed the landscape of security, surveillance, and authentication systems, offering a user-friendly and non-invasive biometric solution. However, despite its significant advantages, face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Arun Kunwar , Ajita Rattani

Face Anti-spoofing (FAS) is essential to secure face recognition systems from various physical attacks. However, most of the studies lacked consideration of long-distance scenarios. Specifically, compared with FAS in traditional scenes such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Hao Fang , Ajian Liu , Jun Wan , Sergio Escalera , Hugo Jair Escalante , Zhen Lei

Photorealistic talking-head avatars are becoming increasingly common in virtual meetings, gaming, and social platforms. These avatars allow for more immersive communication, but they also introduce serious security risks. One emerging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Laura Pedrouzo-Rodriguez , Pedro Delgado-DeRobles , Luis F. Gomez , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez

Recent research on biometrics focuses on achieving a high success rate of authentication and addressing the concern of various spoofing attacks. Although hand geometry recognition provides adequate security over unauthorized access, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Asish Bera , Ratnadeep Dey , Debotosh Bhattacharjee , Mita Nasipuri , Hubert P. H. Shum

Recently, significant progress has been made in face presentation attack detection (PAD), which aims to secure face recognition systems against presentation attacks, owing to the availability of several face PAD datasets. However, all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Meiling Fang , Marco Huber , Naser Damer

The increased need for unattended authentication in multiple scenarios has motivated a wide deployment of biometric systems in the last few years. This has in turn led to the disclosure of security concerns specifically related to biometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Ruben Tolosana , Marta Gomez-Barrero , Christoph Busch , Javier Ortega-Garcia

Deepfakes are computationally-created entities that falsely represent reality. They can take image, video, and audio modalities, and pose a threat to many areas of systems and societies, comprising a topic of interest to various aspects of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Sergi D. Bray , Shane D. Johnson , Bennett Kleinberg

Face anti-spoofing is the key to preventing security breaches in biometric recognition applications. Existing software-based and hardware-based face liveness detection methods are effective in constrained environments or designated datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Yu Tian , Kunbo Zhang , Leyuan Wang , Zhenan Sun

Biometric authentication systems are increasingly being deployed in critical applications, but they remain susceptible to spoofing. Since most of the research efforts focus on modality-specific anti-spoofing techniques, building a unified,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Nidheesh Gorthi , Kartik Thakral , Rishabh Ranjan , Richa Singh , Mayank Vatsa