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Research in presentation attack detection (PAD) for iris recognition has largely moved beyond evaluation in "closed-set" scenarios, to emphasize ability to generalize to presentation attack types not present in the training data. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Aidan Boyd , Jeremy Speth , Lucas Parzianello , Kevin Bowyer , Adam Czajka

Fingerprint recognition systems are widely deployed in various real-life applications as they have achieved high accuracy. The widely used applications include border control, automated teller machine (ATM), and attendance monitoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Jag Mohan Singh , Ahmed Madhun , Guoqiang Li , Raghavendra Ramachandra

Biometric systems are vulnerable to Presentation Attacks (PA) performed using various Presentation Attack Instruments (PAIs). Even though there are numerous Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) techniques based on both deep learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Zhe Kong , Wentian Zhang , Feng Liu , Wenhan Luo , Haozhe Liu , Linlin Shen , Raghavendra Ramachandra

Presentation attacks represent a critical security threat where adversaries use fake biometric data, such as face, fingerprint, or iris images, to gain unauthorized access to protected systems. Various presentation attack detection (PAD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Rashik Shadman , M G Sarwar Murshed , Faraz Hussain

Face recognition (FR) systems continue to spread in our daily lives with an increasing demand for higher explainability and interpretability of FR systems that are mainly based on deep learning. While bias across demographic groups in FR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Marco Huber , Meiling Fang , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer

Face recognition (FR) algorithms have been proven to exhibit discriminatory behaviors against certain demographic and non-demographic groups, raising ethical and legal concerns regarding their deployment in real-world scenarios. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Meiling Fang , Wufei Yang , Arjan Kuijper , Vitomir Struc , Naser Damer

Diversity and unpredictability of artifacts potentially presented to an iris sensor calls for presentation attack detection methods that are agnostic to specificity of presentation attack instruments. This paper proposes a method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Zhaoyuan Fang , Adam Czajka , Kevin W. Bowyer

The vulnerability of automated fingerprint recognition systems to presentation attacks (PA), i.e., spoof or altered fingers, has been a growing concern, warranting the development of accurate and efficient presentation attack detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Steven A. Grosz , Tarang Chugh , Anil K. Jain

Face recognition systems (FRS) exhibit significant accuracy differences based on the user's gender. Since such a gender gap reduces the trustworthiness of FRS, more recent efforts have tried to find the causes. However, these studies make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Paul Jonas Kurz , Haiyu Wu , Kevin W. Bowyer , Philipp Terhörst

Systems incorporating biometric technologies have become ubiquitous in personal, commercial, and governmental identity management applications. Both cooperative (e.g. access control) and non-cooperative (e.g. surveillance and forensics)…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-03-08 P. Drozdowski , C. Rathgeb , A. Dantcheva , N. Damer , C. Busch

Fingerprint capture systems can be fooled by widely accessible methods to spoof the system using fake fingers, known as presentation attacks. As biometric recognition systems become more extensively relied upon at international borders and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Richard Plesh , Keivan Bahmani , Ganghee Jang , David Yambay , Ken Brownlee , Timothy Swyka , Peter Johnson , Arun Ross , Stephanie Schuckers

Applications based on biometric authentication have received a lot of interest in the last years due to the breathtaking results obtained using personal traits such as face or fingerprint. However, it is important not to forget that these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Carlos Gonzalez-Garcia , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Julian Fierrez , Javier Ortega-Garcia

Fingerprint-based biometric systems have experienced a large development in the last years. Despite their many advantages, they are still vulnerable to presentation attacks (PAs). Therefore, the task of determining whether a sample stems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Lázaro J. González-Soler , Marta Gomez-Barrero , Leonardo Chang , Airel Pérez-Suárez , Christoph Busch

Fairness in human-robot interaction critically depends on the reliability of the perceptual models that enable robots to interpret human behavior. While demographic biases have been widely studied in high-level facial analysis tasks, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Pablo Parte , Roberto Valle , José M. Buenaposada , Luis Baumela

Biometric recognition is a trending technology that uses unique characteristics data to identify or verify/authenticate security applications. Amidst the classically used biometrics, voice and face attributes are the most propitious for…

Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) is a crucial stage in facial recognition systems to avoid leakage of personal information or spoofing of identity to entities. Recently, pulse detection based on remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Luis F. Gomez , Julian Fierrez , Aythami Morales , Mahdi Ghafourian , Ruben Tolosana , Imanol Solano , Alejandro Garcia , Francisco Zamora-Martinez

Face recognition is a mainstream biometric authentication method. However, vulnerability to presentation attacks (a.k.a spoofing) limits its usability in unsupervised applications. Even though there are many methods available for tackling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Anjith George , Zohreh Mostaani , David Geissenbuhler , Olegs Nikisins , Andre Anjos , Sebastien Marcel

In recent years, the popularity of fingerprint-based biometric authentication systems significantly increased. However, together with many advantages, biometric systems are still vulnerable to presentation attacks (PAs). In particular, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Jascha Kolberg , Marcel Grimmer , Marta Gomez-Barrero , Christoph Busch

As the popularity of iris recognition systems increases, the importance of effective security measures against presentation attacks becomes paramount. This work presents an overview of the most important advances in the area of iris…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Aidan Boyd , Zhaoyuan Fang , Adam Czajka , Kevin W. Bowyer

Iris presentation attack detection (PAD) is critical for secure biometric deployments, yet developing specialized models faces significant practical barriers: collecting data representing future unknown attacks is impossible, and collecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jacob Piland , Byron Dowling , Christopher Sweet , Adam Czajka