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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

Remote identity verification is essential for modern digital security; however, it remains highly vulnerable to sophisticated Presentation Attacks (PAs) that utilise forged or manipulated identity documents. Although Deep Learning (DL) has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Esteban M. Ruiz , Juan E. Tapia , Reinel T. Soto , Christoph Busch

We propose a new iris presentation attack detection method using three-dimensional features of an observed iris region estimated by photometric stereo. Our implementation uses a pair of iris images acquired by a common commercial iris…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Adam Czajka , Zhaoyuan Fang , Kevin W. Bowyer

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

Reliability and accuracy of iris biometric modality has prompted its large-scale deployment for critical applications such as border control and national ID projects. The extensive growth of iris recognition systems has raised apprehensions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Naman Kohli , Daksha Yadav , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh , Afzel Noore

Over the past few years, Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) has become a fundamental part of facial recognition systems. Although much effort has been devoted to anti-spoofing research, generalization in real scenarios remains a challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Artur Costa-Pazo , David Jimenez-Cabello , Esteban Vazquez-Fernandez , Jose L. Alba-Castro , Roberto J. López-Sastre

Iris recognition systems are vulnerable to the presentation attacks, such as textured contact lenses or printed images. In this paper, we propose a lightweight framework to detect iris presentation attacks by extracting multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Meiling Fang , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

Biometric has been increasing in relevance these days since it can be used for several applications such as access control for instance. Unfortunately, with the increased deployment of biometric applications, we observe an increase of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Jose Maureira , Juan Tapia , Claudia Arellano , Christoph 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

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

Face presentation attack detection (PAD) has received increasing attention ever since the vulnerabilities to spoofing have been widely recognized. The state of the art in unimodal and multi-modal face anti-spoofing has been assessed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Zitong Yu , Jukka Komulainen , Xiaobai Li , Guoying Zhao

The accurate detection of ID card Presentation Attacks (PA) is becoming increasingly important due to the rising number of online/remote services that require the presentation of digital photographs of ID cards for digital onboarding or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Reuben Markham , Juan M. Espin , Mario Nieto-Hidalgo , Juan E. Tapia

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are being increasingly used to address the problem of iris presentation attack detection. In this work, we propose attention-guided iris presentation attack detection (AG-PAD) to augment CNNs with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Cunjian Chen , Arun Ross

The widespread deployment of face recognition-based biometric systems has made face Presentation Attack Detection (face anti-spoofing) an increasingly critical issue. This survey thoroughly investigates the face Presentation Attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Zuheng Ming , Muriel Visani , Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman , Jean-Christophe Burie

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

Facial biometrics are widely deployed in smartphone-based applications because of their usability and increased verification accuracy in unconstrained scenarios. The evolving applications of smartphone-based facial recognition have also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Raghavendra Ramachandra , Jag Mohan Singh , Sushma Venkatesh

Biometric authentication is becoming more prevalent for secured authentication systems. However, the biometric substances can be deceived by the imposters in several ways. Among other imposter attacks, print attacks, mask attacks, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Prosenjit Chatterjee , Alex Yalchin , Joseph Shelton , Kaushik Roy , Xiaohong Yuan , Kossi D. Edoh

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

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

Launched in 2013, LivDet-Iris is an international competition series open to academia and industry with the aim to assess and report advances in iris Presentation Attack Detection (PAD). This paper presents results from the fourth…