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This paper proposes a framework for a privacy-safe iris presentation attack detection (PAD) method, designed solely with synthetically-generated, identity-leakage-free iris images. Once trained, the method is evaluated in a classical way…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Mahsa Mitcheff , Patrick Tinsley , Adam Czajka

Iris-based biometric systems are vulnerable to presentation attacks (PAs), where adversaries present physical artifacts (e.g., printed iris images, textured contact lenses) to defeat the system. This has led to the development of various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Debasmita Pal , Redwan Sony , Arun Ross

Fingerprint capture systems can be fooled by widely accessible methods to spoof the system using fake fingers, known as presentation attacks. As biometric recognition systems become more extensively relied upon at international borders and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Richard Plesh , Keivan Bahmani , Ganghee Jang , David Yambay , Ken Brownlee , Timothy Swyka , Peter Johnson , Arun Ross , Stephanie Schuckers

Nowadays, the adoption of face recognition for biometric authentication systems is usual, mainly because this is one of the most accessible biometric modalities. Techniques that rely on trespassing these kind of systems by using a forged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Rodrigo Bresan , Allan Pinto , Anderson Rocha , Carlos Beluzo , Tiago Carvalho

Iris recognition is widely recognized as one of the most accurate biometric modalities. However, its growing deployment in real-world applications raises significant concerns regarding its vulnerability to Presentation Attacks (PAs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Raghavendra Ramachandra , Sushma Venkatesh

Iris presentation attack detection (PAD) plays a vital role in iris recognition systems. Most existing CNN-based iris PAD solutions 1) perform only binary label supervision during the training of CNNs, serving global information learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Meiling Fang , Naser Damer , Fadi Boutros , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

The vulnerabilities of fingerprint authentication systems have raised security concerns when adapting them to highly secure access-control applications. Therefore, Fingerprint Presentation Attack Detection (FPAD) methods are essential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Hailin Li , Raghavendra Ramachandra

Biometric recognition is a trending technology that uses unique characteristics data to identify or verify/authenticate security applications. Amidst the classically used biometrics, voice and face attributes are the most propitious for…

Iris Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) is essential to secure iris recognition systems. Recent iris PAD solutions achieved good performance by leveraging deep learning techniques. However, most results were reported under intra-database…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Meiling Fang , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer

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

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

Biometric presentation attack detection is gaining increasing attention. Users of mobile devices find it more convenient to unlock their smart applications with finger, face or iris recognition instead of passwords. In this paper, we survey…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Yomna Safaa El-Din , Mohamed N. Moustafa , Hani Mahdi

In recent years, the popularity of fingerprint-based biometric authentication systems significantly increased. However, together with many advantages, biometric systems are still vulnerable to presentation attacks (PAs). In particular, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Jascha Kolberg , Marcel Grimmer , Marta Gomez-Barrero , Christoph Busch

The robustness and generalization ability of Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) methods is critical to ensure the security of Face Recognition Systems (FRSs). However, in a real scenario, Presentation Attacks (PAs) are various and it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Wentian Zhang , Haozhe Liu , Feng Liu , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Christoph Busch

This paper proposes the first, known to us, open source presentation attack detection (PAD) solution to distinguish between authentic iris images (possibly wearing clear contact lenses) and irises with textured contact lenses. This software…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Joseph McGrath , Kevin W. Bowyer , Adam Czajka

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 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

This paper proposes the first known to us open source hardware and software iris recognition system with presentation attack detection (PAD), which can be easily assembled for about 75 USD using Raspberry Pi board and a few peripherals. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Zhaoyuan Fang , Adam Czajka

Iris recognition systems, operating in the near infrared spectrum (NIR), have demonstrated vulnerability to presentation attacks, where an adversary uses artifacts such as cosmetic contact lenses, artificial eyes or printed iris images in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Darshika Jauhari , Renu Sharma , Cunjian Chen , Nelson Sepulveda , Arun Ross

Face masks have become one of the main methods for reducing the transmission of COVID-19. This makes face recognition (FR) a challenging task because masks hide several discriminative features of faces. Moreover, face presentation attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Meiling Fang , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper