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Morphing attacks is a threat to biometric systems where the biometric reference in an identity document can be altered. This form of attack presents an important issue in applications relying on identity documents such as border security or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Eklavya Sarkar , Pavel Korshunov , Laurent Colbois , Sébastien Marcel

The development of face recognition algorithms by academic and commercial organizations is growing rapidly due to the onset of deep learning and the widespread availability of training data. Though tests of face recognition algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 John J. Howard , Eli J. Laird , Yevgeniy B. Sirotin , Rebecca E. Rubin , Jerry L. Tipton , Arun R. Vemury

A face morphing attack image can be verified to multiple identities, making this attack a major vulnerability to processes based on identity verification, such as border checks. Various methods have been proposed to detect face morphing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Naser Damer , Noemie Spiller , Meiling Fang , Fadi Boutros , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

In recent years, increasing deployment of face recognition technology in security-critical settings, such as border control or law enforcement, has led to considerable interest in the vulnerability of face recognition systems to attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Robert Nichols , Christian Rathgeb , Pawel Drozdowski , Christoph Busch

Face morphing attacks pose a substantial risk to the reliability of face recognition systems used in passport issuance, border control, and digital identity verification. Detecting morphing attacks from a single facial image remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Raghavendra Ramachandra

Face morphing attack detection is a challenging task. Automatic classification methods and manual inspection are realised in automatic border control gates to detect morphing attacks. Understanding how a machine learning system can detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Juan Tapia , Christoph Busch

Face recognition has evolved significantly with the advancement of deep learning techniques, enabling its widespread adoption in various applications requiring secure authentication. However, this progress has also increased its exposure to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Iurii Medvedev , Nuno Goncalves

Morphing attacks are a threat to biometric systems where the biometric reference in an identity document can be altered. This form of attack presents an important issue in applications relying on identity documents such as border security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Eklavya Sarkar , Pavel Korshunov , Laurent Colbois , Sébastien Marcel

Face Anti-Spoofing (FAS) is crucial to safeguard Face Recognition (FR) Systems. In real-world scenarios, FRs are confronted with both physical and digital attacks. However, existing algorithms often address only one type of attack at a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Haocheng Yuan , Ajian Liu , Junze Zheng , Jun Wan , Jiankang Deng , Sergio Escalera , Hugo Jair Escalante , Isabelle Guyon , Zhen Lei

The primary objective of face morphing is to combine face images of different data subjects (e.g. a malicious actor and an accomplice) to generate a face image that can be equally verified for both contributing data subjects. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Sushma Venkatesh , Haoyu Zhang , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Naser Damer , Christoph Busch

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

Artificial neural networks tend to learn only what they need for a task. A manipulation of the training data can counter this phenomenon. In this paper, we study the effect of different alterations of the training data, which limit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Clemens Seibold , Wojciech Samek , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

We propose an experimental method for measuring bias in face recognition systems. Existing methods to measure bias depend on benchmark datasets that are collected in the wild and annotated for protected (e.g., race, gender) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Hao Liang , Pietro Perona , Guha Balakrishnan

Face recognition systems (FRS) exhibit significant accuracy differences based on the user's gender. Since such a gender gap reduces the trustworthiness of FRS, more recent efforts have tried to find the causes. However, these studies make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Paul Jonas Kurz , Haiyu Wu , Kevin W. Bowyer , Philipp Terhörst

Although biometric facial recognition systems are fast becoming part of security applications, these systems are still vulnerable to morphing attacks, in which a facial reference image can be verified as two or more separate identities. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Sobhan Soleymani , Baaria Chaudhary , Ali Dabouei , Jeremy Dawson , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Face morphing attacks represent a significant threat to biometric systems as they allow multiple identities to be combined into a single face. While supervised morphing attack detection (MAD) methods have shown promising performance, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Diogo J. Paulo , Hugo Proença , João C. Neves

Previous generations of face recognition algorithms differ in accuracy for images of different races (race bias). Here, we present the possible underlying factors (data-driven and scenario modeling) and methodological considerations for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Jacqueline G. Cavazos , P. Jonathon Phillips , Carlos D. Castillo , Alice J. O'Toole

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have recently been explored as face verification systems that determine whether two face images are of the same person. Unlike dedicated face recognition systems, MLLMs approach this task through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Ünsal Öztürk , Hatef Otroshi Shahreza , Sébastien Marcel

A facial morph is a synthetically created image of a face that looks similar to two different individuals and can even trick biometric facial recognition systems into recognizing both individuals. This attack is known as face morphing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Clemens Seibold , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

Face Morphing Attack Detection (MAD) is a critical challenge in face recognition security, where attackers can fool systems by interpolating the identity information of two or more individuals into a single face image, resulting in samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Eduarda Caldeira , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer