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Face recognition has evolved as a widely used biometric modality. However, its vulnerability against presentation attacks poses a significant security threat. Though presentation attack detection (PAD) methods try to address this issue,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Anjith George , Sebastien Marcel

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

Face recognition systems are often used for biometric authentication. Nevertheless, it is known that without any protective measures, face recognition systems are vulnerable to presentation attacks. To tackle this security problem, methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Mathias Ibsen , Loris Tim Ide , Christian Rathgeb , Christoph Busch

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

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

Lack of generalization to unseen domains/attacks is the Achilles heel of most face presentation attack detection (FacePAD) algorithms. Existing attempts to enhance the generalizability of FacePAD solutions assume that data from multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Naif Alkhunaizi , Koushik Srivatsan , Faris Almalik , Ibrahim Almakky , Karthik Nandakumar

The diffusion of fingerprint verification systems for security applications makes it urgent to investigate the embedding of software-based presentation attack detection algorithms (PAD) into such systems. Companies and institutions need to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Marco Micheletto , Gian Luca Marcialis , Giulia Orrù , Fabio Roli

Nowadays, Presentation Attack Detection is a very active research area. Several databases are constituted in the state-of-the-art using images extracted from videos. One of the main problems identified is that many databases present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Diego Pasmino , Carlos Aravena , Juan Tapia , Christoph Busch

The low-cost, user-friendly, and convenient nature of Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Systems (AFRS) makes them suitable for a wide range of applications. This spreading use of AFRS also makes them vulnerable to various security threats.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Anuj Rai , Ashutosh Anshul , Ashwini Jha , Prayag Jain , Ramprakash Sharma , Somnath Dey

Smartphone-based contactless fingerphoto authentication has become a reliable alternative to traditional contact-based fingerprint biometric systems owing to rapid advances in smartphone camera technology. Despite its convenience,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Hailin Li , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Mohamed Ragab , Soumik Mondal , Yong Kiam Tan , Khin Mi Mi Aung

This paper proposes a method for utilizing thermal features of the hand for the purpose of presentation attack detection (PAD) that can be employed in a hand biometrics system's pipeline. By envisaging two different operational modes of our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Ewelina Bartuzi , Mateusz Trokielewicz

Human perceptual priors have shown promise in saliency-guided deep learning training, particularly in the domain of iris presentation attack detection (PAD). Common saliency approaches include hand annotations obtained via mouse clicks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Byron Dowling , Jacob Piland , Eleanor Frederick , Christopher Sweet , Adam Czajka

Face recognition systems are widely deployed for biometric authentication. Despite this, it is well-known that, without any safeguards, face recognition systems are highly vulnerable to presentation attacks. In response to this security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 M. Ibsen , C. Rathgeb , F. Brechtel , R. Klepp , K. Pöppelmann , A. George , S. Marcel , C. Busch

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

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

Face presentation attack detection (PAD) plays an important role in defending face recognition systems against presentation attacks. The success of PAD largely relies on supervised learning that requires a huge number of labeled data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Usman Muhammad , Mourad Oussalah

Non-referential face image quality assessment methods have gained popularity as a pre-filtering step on face recognition systems. In most of them, the quality score is usually designed with face matching in mind. However, a small amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Carlos Aravena , Diego Pasmino , Juan E. Tapia , Christoph Busch

An iris biometric system can be compromised by presentation attacks (PAs) where artifacts such as artificial eyes, printed eye images, or cosmetic contact lenses are presented to the system. To counteract this, several presentation attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Shivangi Yadav , Arun Ross

With the widespread use of biometric systems, the demographic bias problem raises more attention. Although many studies addressed bias issues in biometric verification, there are no works that analyze the bias in presentation attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Meiling Fang , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

The adoption of large-scale iris recognition systems around the world has brought to light the importance of detecting presentation attack images (textured contact lenses and printouts). This work presents a new approach in iris…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Andrey Kuehlkamp , Allan Pinto , Anderson Rocha , Kevin Bowyer , Adam Czajka