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Maliciously-manipulated images or videos - so-called deep fakes - especially face-swap images and videos have attracted more and more malicious attackers to discredit some key figures. Previous pixel-level artifacts based detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Weinan Guan , Wei Wang , Jing Dong , Bo Peng , Tieniu Tan

The vulnerability of facial recognition systems to face morphing attacks is well known. Many different approaches for morphing attack detection have been proposed in the scientific literature. However, the morphing attack detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Ulrich Scherhag , Christian Rathgeb , Johannes Merkle , Christoph Busch

The task of detecting morphed face images has become highly relevant in recent years to ensure the security of automatic verification systems based on facial images, e.g. automated border control gates. Detection methods based on Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Clemens Seibold , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

Face Recognition Systems (FRS) are vulnerable to morph attacks. A face morph is created by combining multiple identities with the intention to fool FRS and making it match the morph with multiple identities. Current Morph Attack Detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Nitish Shukla

A face morph is created by strategically combining two or more face images corresponding to multiple identities. The intention is for the morphed image to match with multiple identities. Current morph attack detection strategies can detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Sudipta Banerjee , Prateek Jaiswal , Arun Ross

Face morphing attack detection is a challenging task. Automatic classification methods and manual inspection are realised in automatic border control gates to detect morphing attacks. Understanding how a machine learning system can detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Juan Tapia , Christoph Busch

Morphed images have exploited loopholes in the face recognition checkpoints, e.g., Credential Authentication Technology (CAT), used by Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which is a non-trivial security concern. To overcome the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Poorya Aghdaie , Baaria Chaudhary , Sobhan Soleymani , Jeremy Dawson , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Face morphing attacks have posed severe threats to Face Recognition Systems (FRS), which are operated in border control and passport issuance use cases. Correspondingly, morphing attack detection algorithms (MAD) are needed to defend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Haoyu Zhang , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Christoph Busch

Morphing is a challenge to face recognition (FR) for which several morphing attack detection solutions have been proposed. We argue that face recognition and differential morphing attack detection (D-MAD) in principle perform very similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Una M. Kelly , Luuk J. Spreeuwers , Raymond N. J. Veldhuis

Few studies have focused on examining how people recognize morphing attacks, even as several publications have examined the susceptibility of automated FRS and offered morphing attack detection (MAD) approaches. MAD approaches base their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Sankini Rancha Godage , Frøy Løvåsdal , Sushma Venkatesh , Kiran Raja , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Christoph Busch

Face morphing attacks threaten the integrity of biometric identity systems by enabling multiple individuals to share a single identity. To develop and evaluate effective morphing attack detection (MAD) systems, we need access to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Wassim Kabbani , Kiran Raja , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Christoph Busch

In this work, we introduce DifFoundMAD, a parameter-efficient D-MAD framework that exploits the generalisation capabilities of vision foundation models (FM) to capture discrepancies between suspected morphs and live capture images. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lazaro J. Gonzalez-Soler , André Dörsch , Christian Rathgeb , Christoph Busch

Morphing Attack Detection (MAD) is a relevant topic that aims to detect attempts by unauthorised individuals to access a "valid" identity. One of the main scenarios is printing morphed images and submitting the respective print in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Juan E. Tapia , Maximilian Russo , Christoph Busch

Face Recognition systems (FRS) have been found to be vulnerable to morphing attacks, where the morphed face image is generated by blending the face images from contributory data subjects. This work presents a novel direction for generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jag Mohan Singh , Raghavendra Ramachandra

Face recognition systems are widely deployed in high-security applications such as for biometric verification at border controls. Despite their high accuracy on pristine data, it is well-known that digital manipulations, such as face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Mathias Ibsen , Lázaro J. González-Soler , Christian Rathgeb , Christoph Busch

In this work, we present a practical approach to the problem of facial landmark detection. The proposed method can deal with large shape and appearance variations under the rich shape deformation. To handle the shape variations we equip our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh , Ali Dabouei , Sobhan Soleymani , Hadi Kazemi , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

A face morphing attack image can be verified to multiple identities, making this attack a major vulnerability to processes based on identity verification, such as border checks. Various methods have been proposed to detect face morphing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Naser Damer , Noemie Spiller , Meiling Fang , Fadi Boutros , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

Morphing attacks have posed a severe threat to Face Recognition System (FRS). Despite the number of advancements reported in recent works, we note serious open issues such as independent benchmarking, generalizability challenges and…

Face-morphing attacks have been a cause for concern for a number of years. Striving to remain one step ahead of attackers, researchers have proposed many methods of both creating and detecting morphed images. These detection methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Richard T. Marriott , Sami Romdhani , Stéphane Gentric , Liming Chen

We present a face detection algorithm based on Deformable Part Models and deep pyramidal features. The proposed method called DP2MFD is able to detect faces of various sizes and poses in unconstrained conditions. It reduces the gap in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-19 Rajeev Ranjan , Vishal M. Patel , Rama Chellappa