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Face morphing, a sophisticated presentation attack technique, poses significant security risks to face recognition systems. Traditional methods struggle to detect morphing attacks, which involve blending multiple face images to create a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Iurii Medvedev , Joana Pimenta , Nuno Gonçalves

A face morph is created by strategically combining two or more face images corresponding to multiple identities. The intention is for the morphed image to match with multiple identities. Current morph attack detection strategies can detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Sudipta Banerjee , Prateek Jaiswal , Arun Ross

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for conducting face morphing attacks, which utilizes optimal-landmark-guided image blending. Current face morphing attacks can be categorized into landmark-based and generation-based approaches.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Qiaoyun He , Zongyong Deng , Zuyuan He , Qijun Zhao

State-of-the-art face recognition (FR) approaches have shown remarkable results in predicting whether two faces belong to the same identity, yielding accuracies between 92% and 100% depending on the difficulty of the protocol. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Stefan Hörmann , Tianlin Kong , Torben Teepe , Fabian Herzog , Martin Knoche , Gerhard Rigoll

Mathematical morphology is a theory and technique to collect features like geometric and topological structures in digital images. Given a target image, determining suitable morphological operations and structuring elements is a cumbersome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Yucong Shen , Xin Zhong , Frank Y. Shih

The technological advancements of deep learning have enabled sophisticated face manipulation schemes, raising severe trust issues and security concerns in modern society. Generally speaking, detecting manipulated faces and locating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Chenqi Kong , Baoliang Chen , Haoliang Li , Shiqi Wang , Anderson Rocha , Sam Kwong

Robust face detection is one of the most important pre-processing steps to support facial expression analysis, facial landmarking, face recognition, pose estimation, building of 3D facial models, etc. Although this topic has been intensely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Yutong Zheng , Chenchen Zhu , Khoa Luu , Chandrasekhar Bhagavatula , T. Hoang Ngan Le , Marios Savvides

The vulnerability of Face Recognition System (FRS) to various kind of attacks (both direct and in-direct attacks) and face morphing attacks has received a great interest from the biometric community. The goal of a morphing attack is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Sushma Venkatesh , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Christoph Busch

In this work, we present a practical approach to the problem of facial landmark detection. The proposed method can deal with large shape and appearance variations under the rich shape deformation. To handle the shape variations we equip our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh , Ali Dabouei , Sobhan Soleymani , Hadi Kazemi , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Face morphing attacks have raised critical concerns as they demonstrate a new vulnerability of Face Recognition Systems (FRS), which are widely deployed in border control applications. The face morphing process uses the images from multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Sushma Venkatesh , Kiran Raja , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Christoph Busch

Face morphing attacks are widely recognized as one of the most challenging threats to face recognition systems used in electronic identity documents. These attacks exploit a critical vulnerability in passport enrollment procedures adopted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Nicolò Di Domenico , Annalisa Franco , Matteo Ferrara , Davide Maltoni

Face-morphing attacks have been a cause for concern for a number of years. Striving to remain one step ahead of attackers, researchers have proposed many methods of both creating and detecting morphed images. These detection methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Richard T. Marriott , Sami Romdhani , Stéphane Gentric , Liming Chen

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a very powerful approach to extract discriminative local descriptors for effective image search. Recent work adopts fine-tuned strategies to further improve the discriminative power of the descriptors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Tuan Hoang , Thanh-Toan Do , Dang-Khoa Le Tan , Ngai-Man Cheung

Biometric face morphing poses a critical challenge to identity verification systems, undermining their security and robustness. To address this issue, we propose WaFusion, a novel framework combining wavelet decomposition and diffusion…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Seyed Rasoul Hosseini , Omid Ahmadieh , Jeremy Dawson , Nasser Nasrabadi

A key recent advance in face recognition models a test face image as a sparse linear combination of a set of training face images. The resulting sparse representations have been shown to possess robustness against a variety of distortions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Yi Chen , Umamahesh Srinivas , Thong T. Do , Vishal Monga , Trac D. Tran

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

In this paper, a multi-resolution feature extraction algorithm for face recognition is proposed based on two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform (2D-DWT), which efficiently exploits the local spatial variations in a face image. For the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-10-10 Hafiz Imtiaz , Shaikh Anowarul Fattah

Face morphing attack detection is challenging and presents a concrete and severe threat for face verification systems. Reliable detection mechanisms for such attacks, which have been tested with a robust cross-database protocol and unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Juan Tapia , Daniel Schulz , Christoph Busch

Face recognition systems are widely deployed in high-security applications such as for biometric verification at border controls. Despite their high accuracy on pristine data, it is well-known that digital manipulations, such as face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Mathias Ibsen , Lázaro J. González-Soler , Christian Rathgeb , Christoph Busch

Morphing attacks have posed a severe threat to Face Recognition System (FRS). Despite the number of advancements reported in recent works, we note serious open issues such as independent benchmarking, generalizability challenges and…