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Over the past few years, Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) has become a fundamental part of facial recognition systems. Although much effort has been devoted to anti-spoofing research, generalization in real scenarios remains a challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Artur Costa-Pazo , David Jimenez-Cabello , Esteban Vazquez-Fernandez , Jose L. Alba-Castro , Roberto J. López-Sastre

Vision foundation models have demonstrated strong transferability across diverse visual recognition tasks and are increasingly considered for biometric applications. Their suitability for iris Presentation Attack Detection (PAD),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Rahul Anand , Siddharth Singh , Dileep A D , Mahadeva Prasanna , Raghavendra Ramachandra

In the last few years, Artificial Intelligence systems have become increasingly widespread. Unfortunately, these systems can share many biases with human decision-making, including demographic biases. Often, these biases can be traced back…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Iris Dominguez-Catena , Daniel Paternain , Mikel Galar

The vulnerability against presentation attacks is a crucial problem undermining the wide-deployment of face recognition systems. Though presentation attack detection (PAD) systems try to address this problem, the lack of generalization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Anjith George , David Geissbuhler , Sebastien Marcel

This paper presents a deep-learning-based method for iris presentation attack detection (PAD) when iris images are obtained from deceased people. Our approach is based on the VGG-16 architecture fine-tuned with a database of 574…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Mateusz Trokielewicz , Adam Czajka , Piotr Maciejewicz

Remote identity verification is essential for modern digital security; however, it remains highly vulnerable to sophisticated Presentation Attacks (PAs) that utilise forged or manipulated identity documents. Although Deep Learning (DL) has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Esteban M. Ruiz , Juan E. Tapia , Reinel T. Soto , Christoph Busch

The problem of bias persists in the deep learning community as models continue to provide disparate performance across different demographic subgroups. Therefore, several algorithms have been proposed to improve the fairness of deep models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Puspita Majumdar , Surbhi Mittal , Saheb Chhabra , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

The main scope of this chapter is to serve as an introduction to face presentation attack detection, including key resources and advances in the field in the last few years. The next pages present the different presentation attacks that a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Javier Hernandez-Ortega , Julian Fierrez , Aythami Morales , Javier Galbally

Face biometrics are playing a key role in making modern smart city applications more secure and usable. Commonly, the recognition threshold of a face recognition system is adjusted based on the degree of security for the considered use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Andrea Atzori , Gianni Fenu , Mirko Marras

Recently, concerns regarding potential biases in the underlying algorithms of many automated systems (including biometrics) have been raised. In this context, a biased algorithm produces statistically different outcomes for different groups…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 P. Drozdowski , B. Prommegger , G. Wimmer , R. Schraml , C. Rathgeb , A. Uhl , C. Busch

Presentation attacks are recurrent threats to biometric systems, where impostors attempt to bypass these systems. Humans often use background information as contextual cues for their visual system. Yet, regarding face-based systems, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Pedro C. Neto , Ana F. Sequeira , Jaime S. Cardoso

Machine learning models can inherit biases from their training data, leading to discriminatory or inaccurate predictions. This is particularly concerning with the increasing use of large, unsupervised datasets for training foundational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Iris Dominguez-Catena , Daniel Paternain , Aranzazu Jurio , Mikel Galar

Demographic biases in source datasets have been shown as one of the causes of unfairness and discrimination in the predictions of Machine Learning models. One of the most prominent types of demographic bias are statistical imbalances in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Iris Dominguez-Catena , Daniel Paternain , Mikel Galar

For enterprise, personal and societal applications, there is now an increasing demand for automated authentication of identity from images using computer vision. However, current authentication technologies are still vulnerable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Ayush Jaiswal , Shuai Xia , Iacopo Masi , Wael AbdAlmageed

Gender classification algorithms have important applications in many domains today such as demographic research, law enforcement, as well as human-computer interaction. Recent research showed that algorithms trained on biased benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Wenying Wu , Pavlos Protopapas , Zheng Yang , Panagiotis Michalatos

Iris recognition is increasingly used in large-scale applications. As a result, presentation attack detection for iris recognition takes on fundamental importance. This survey covers the diverse research literature on this topic. Different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Adam Czajka , Kevin W. Bowyer

As the deployment of automated face recognition (FR) systems proliferates, bias in these systems is not just an academic question, but a matter of public concern. Media portrayals often center imbalance as the main source of bias, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Valeriia Cherepanova , Steven Reich , Samuel Dooley , Hossein Souri , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

Iris biometrics is a phenotypic biometric trait that has proven to be agnostic to human natural physiological changes. Research on iris biometrics has progressed tremendously, partly due to publicly available iris databases. Various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Jawad Muhammad , Yunlong Wang , Junxing Hu , Kunbo Zhang , Zhenan Sun

In recent times, there have been increasing accusations on artificial intelligence systems and algorithms of computer vision of possessing implicit biases. Even though these conversations are more prevalent now and systems are improving by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Sharadha Srinivasan , Madan Musuvathi

The widespread deployment of face recognition-based biometric systems has made face Presentation Attack Detection (face anti-spoofing) an increasingly critical issue. This survey thoroughly investigates the face Presentation Attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Zuheng Ming , Muriel Visani , Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman , Jean-Christophe Burie