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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

Prior work has shown that multibiometric systems are vulnerable to presentation attacks, assuming that their matching score distribution is identical to that of genuine users, without fabricating any fake trait. We have recently shown that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Battista Biggio , Giorgio Fumera , Gian Luca Marcialis , Fabio Roli

In this work, we present a general framework for building a biometrics system capable of capturing multispectral data from a series of sensors synchronized with active illumination sources. The framework unifies the system design for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Leonidas Spinoulas , Mohamed Hussein , David Geissbühler , Joe Mathai , Oswin G. Almeida , Guillaume Clivaz , Sébastien Marcel , Wael AbdAlmageed

The objective of biometric systems is to provide an identification mechanism. This identification mechanism can be used to fulfil several objectives. The most common, related to providing security to a resource, is usually authentication or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Francesc Serratosa

Face recognition systems are increasingly deployed across a wide range of applications, including smartphone authentication, access control, and border security. However, these systems remain vulnerable to presentation attacks (PAs), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Manasa , Sushrut Patwardhan , Narayan Vetrekar , Pavan Kumar , R. S. Gad , Raghavendra Ramachandra

Presentation attacks are posing major challenges to most of the biometric modalities. Iris recognition, which is considered as one of the most accurate biometric modality for person identification, has also been shown to be vulnerable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Mehak Gupta , Vishal Singh , Akshay Agarwal , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

Accurate face recognition techniques make a series of critical applications possible: policemen could employ it to retrieve criminals' faces from surveillance video streams; cross boarder travelers could pass a face authentication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Zhe Zhou , Di Tang , Xiaofeng Wang , Weili Han , Xiangyu Liu , Kehuan Zhang

This work explores facial expression bias as a security vulnerability of face recognition systems. Despite the great performance achieved by state-of-the-art face recognition systems, the algorithms are still sensitive to a large range of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Alejandro Peña , Ignacio Serna , Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez , Agata Lapedriza

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

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

Face recognition has evolved as a prominent biometric authentication modality. However, vulnerability to presentation attacks curtails its reliable deployment. Automatic detection of presentation attacks is essential for secure use of face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Anjith George , Sebastien Marcel

Face recognition is a widely used biometric approach. Face recognition technology has developed rapidly in recent years and it is more direct, user friendly and convenient compared to other methods. But face recognition systems are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-12 Saptarshi Chakraborty , Dhrubajyoti Das

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

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

Face presentation attack detection (fPAD) plays a critical role in the modern face recognition pipeline. The generalization ability of face presentation attack detection models to unseen attacks has become a key issue for real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Rui Shao , Bochao Zhang , Pong C. Yuen , Vishal M. Patel

Face recognition systems are robust against environmental changes and noise, and thus may be vulnerable to illegal authentication attempts using user face photos, such as spoofing attacks. To prevent such spoofing attacks, it is crucial to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Shota Iwamatsu , Koichi Ito , Takafumi Aoki

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

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

The integration of multimodal models into Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) for ID Documents represents a significant advancement in biometric security. Traditional PAD systems rely solely on visual features, which often fail to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Marina Villanueva , Juan M. Espin , Juan E. Tapia

Protecting digital identities of human face from various attack vectors is paramount, and face anti-spoofing plays a crucial role in this endeavor. Current approaches primarily focus on detecting spoofing attempts within individual frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Xiang Xu , Tianchen Zhao , Zheng Zhang , Zhihua Li , Jon Wu , Alessandro Achille , Mani Srivastava