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The increasingly pervasive facial recognition (FR) systems raise serious concerns about personal privacy, especially for billions of users who have publicly shared their photos on social media. Several attempts have been made to protect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jiang Liu , Chun Pong Lau , Zhongliang Guo , Yuxiang Guo , Zhaoyang Wang , Rama Chellappa

Manipulated videos, especially those where the identity of an individual has been modified using deep neural networks, are becoming an increasingly relevant threat in the modern day. In this paper, we seek to develop a generalizable,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Steven Schwarcz , Rama Chellappa

Modern face recognition systems remain vulnerable to spoofing attempts, including both physical presentation attacks and digital forgeries. Traditionally, these two attack vectors have been handled by separate models, each targeting its own…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Andrei Balykin , Anvar Ganiev , Denis Kondranin , Kirill Polevoda , Nikolai Liudkevich , Artem Petrov

In this work, we investigate the concept of biometric backdoors: a template poisoning attack on biometric systems that allows adversaries to stealthily and effortlessly impersonate users in the long-term by exploiting the template update…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Giulio Lovisotto , Simon Eberz , Ivan Martinovic

In security systems the risk assessment in the sense of common criteria testing is a very relevant topic; this requires quantifying the attack potential in terms of the expertise of the attacker, his knowledge about the target and access to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Matteo Ferrara , Annalisa Franco , Davide Maltoni , Christoph Busch

Face Recognition Systems (FRS) have increasingly integrated into critical applications, including surveillance and user authentication, highlighting their pivotal role in modern security systems. Recent studies have revealed vulnerabilities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Jiahao Chen , Zhiqiang Shen , Yuwen Pu , Chunyi Zhou , Changjiang Li , Jiliang Li , Ting Wang , Shouling Ji

The face swapping technique based on deepfake methods poses significant social risks to personal identity security. While numerous deepfake detection methods have been proposed as countermeasures against malicious face swapping, they can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Jikang Cheng , Jiaxin Ai , Zhen Han , Chao Liang , Qin Zou , Zhongyuan Wang , Qian Wang

Generic face detection algorithms do not perform well in the mobile domain due to significant presence of occluded and partially visible faces. One promising technique to handle the challenge of partial faces is to design face detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Upal Mahbub , Sayantan Sarkar , Rama Chellappa

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

Prevailing defense mechanisms against adversarial face images tend to overfit to the adversarial perturbations in the training set and fail to generalize to unseen adversarial attacks. We propose a new self-supervised adversarial defense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Debayan Deb , Xiaoming Liu , Anil K. Jain

Deepfake represents a category of face-swapping attacks that leverage machine learning models such as autoencoders or generative adversarial networks. Although the concept of the face-swapping is not new, its recent technical advances make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Chaofei Yang , Lei Ding , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

Face occlusions, covering either the majority or discriminative parts of the face, can break facial perception and produce a drastic loss of information. Biometric systems such as recent deep face recognition models are not immune to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Joe Mathai , Iacopo Masi , Wael AbdAlmageed

The field of Person Re-Identification (Re-ID) has received much attention recently, driven by the progress of deep neural networks, especially for image classification. The problem of Re-ID consists in identifying individuals through images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Eduardo de O. Andrade , Igor Garcia Ballhausen Sampaio , Joris Guérin , José Viterbo

Face recognition has been extensively studied in computer vision and artificial intelligence communities in recent years. An important issue of face recognition is data privacy, which receives more and more public concerns. As a common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Fan Bai , Jiaxiang Wu , Pengcheng Shen , Shaoxin Li , Shuigeng Zhou

This study investigates the impact of face image background correction through segmentation on face recognition and morphing attack detection performance in realistic, unconstrained image capture scenarios. The motivation is driven by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Eduarda Caldeira , Guray Ozgur , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer

Face morphing attacks are widely recognized as one of the most challenging threats to face recognition systems used in electronic identity documents. These attacks exploit a critical vulnerability in passport enrollment procedures adopted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Nicolò Di Domenico , Annalisa Franco , Matteo Ferrara , Davide Maltoni

Many computer vision systems require users to upload image features to the cloud for processing and storage. These features can be exploited to recover sensitive information about the scene or subjects, e.g., by reconstructing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Mihai Dusmanu , Johannes L. Schönberger , Sudipta N. Sinha , Marc Pollefeys

Face images are a rich source of information that can be used to identify individuals and infer private information about them. To mitigate this privacy risk, anonymizations employ transformations on clear images to obfuscate sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Julian Todt , Simon Hanisch , Thorsten Strufe

Counterfactuals operationalised through algorithmic recourse have become a powerful tool to make artificial intelligence systems explainable. Conceptually, given an individual classified as y -- the factual -- we seek actions such that…

Face morphing attacks have emerged as a potential threat, particularly in automatic border control scenarios. Morphing attacks permit more than one individual to use travel documents that can be used to cross borders using automatic border…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Raghavendra Ramachandra , Sushma Venkatesh , Gaurav Jaswal , Guoqiang Li