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Face presentation attacks have become a major threat to face recognition systems and many countermeasures have been proposed in the past decade. However, most of them are devoted to 2D face presentation attacks, rather than 3D face masks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Lei Li , Zhaoqiang Xia , Xiaoyue Jiang , Yupeng Ma , Fabio Roli , Xiaoyi Feng

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

Presentation attack detection (PAD) is a critical component in secure face authentication. We present a PAD algorithm to distinguish face spoofs generated by a photograph of a subject from live images. Our method uses an image decomposition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Shlok Kumar Mishra , Kuntal Sengupta , Max Horowitz-Gelb , Wen-Sheng Chu , Sofien Bouaziz , David Jacobs

Although face recognition systems have seen a massive performance enhancement in recent years, they are still targeted by threats such as presentation attacks, leading to the need for generalizable presentation attack detection (PAD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Guray Ozgur , Eduarda Caldeira , Tahar Chettaoui , Fadi Boutros , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Naser Damer

Face anti-spoofing is essential to prevent false facial verification by using a photo, video, mask, or a different substitute for an authorized person's face. Most of the state-of-the-art presentation attack detection (PAD) systems suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Alperen Kantarcı , Hasan Dertli , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

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

Facial cosmetics have the ability to substantially alter the facial appearance, which can negatively affect the decisions of a face recognition. In addition, it was recently shown that the application of makeup can be abused to launch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Christian Rathgeb , Pawel Drozdowski , Christoph Busch

Although face recognition systems have undergone an impressive evolution in the last decade, these technologies are vulnerable to attack presentations (AP). These attacks are mostly easy to create and, by executing them against the system's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Lazaro Janier Gonzalez-Sole , Juan E. Tapia , Christoph Busch

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

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

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

In recent years, face biometric security systems are rapidly increasing, therefore, the presentation attack detection (PAD) has received significant attention from research communities and has become a major field of research. Researchers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Seyedkooshan Hashemifard , Mohammad Akbari

Masked Face Recognition (MFR) is an increasingly important area in biometric recognition technologies, especially with the widespread use of masks as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This development has created new challenges for facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ali Haitham Abdul Amir , Zainab N. Nemer

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 order to effectively prevent the spread of COVID-19 virus, almost everyone wears a mask during coronavirus epidemic. This almost makes conventional facial recognition technology ineffective in many cases, such as community access…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Zhongyuan Wang , Guangcheng Wang , Baojin Huang , Zhangyang Xiong , Qi Hong , Hao Wu , Peng Yi , Kui Jiang , Nanxi Wang , Yingjiao Pei , Heling Chen , Yu Miao , Zhibing Huang , Jinbi Liang

This chapter provides an introduction to Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) in fingerprint biometrics, also coined anti-spoofing, describes early developments in this field, and briefly summarizes recent trends and open issues.

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Javier Galbally , Julian Fierrez , Raffaele Cappelli , Gian Luca Marcialis

Face recognition (FR) systems have demonstrated outstanding verification performance, suggesting suitability for real-world applications ranging from photo tagging in social media to automated border control (ABC). In an advanced FR system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Fatemeh Vakhshiteh , Ahmad Nickabadi , Raghavendra Ramachandra

Nowadays, fingerprint-based biometric recognition systems are becoming increasingly popular. However, in spite of their numerous advantages, biometric capture devices are usually exposed to the public and thus vulnerable to presentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Jascha Kolberg , Marta Gomez-Barrero , Christoph Busch

Voice-based human-machine interfaces with an automatic speaker verification (ASV) component are commonly used in the market. However, the threat from presentation attacks is also growing since attackers can use recent speech synthesis…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi

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