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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

The human face has a high potential for biometric identification due to its many individual traits. At the same time, such identification is vulnerable to biometric copies. These presentation attacks pose a great challenge in unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Martin Thümmel , Sven Sickert , Joachim Denzler

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

Face morphing attacks threaten the integrity of biometric identity systems by enabling multiple individuals to share a single identity. To develop and evaluate effective morphing attack detection (MAD) systems, we need access to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Wassim Kabbani , Kiran Raja , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Christoph Busch

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

The vulnerability of face recognition systems to morphing attacks has posed a serious security threat due to the wide adoption of face biometrics in the real world. Most existing morphing attack detection (MAD) methods require a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Na Zhang , Shan Jia , Siwei Lyu , Xin Li

Morphed images have exploited loopholes in the face recognition checkpoints, e.g., Credential Authentication Technology (CAT), used by Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which is a non-trivial security concern. To overcome the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Poorya Aghdaie , Baaria Chaudhary , Sobhan Soleymani , Jeremy Dawson , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

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 represents nowadays a big security threat in the context of electronic identity documents as well as an interesting challenge for researchers in the field of face recognition. Despite of the good performance obtained by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Matteo Ferrara , Annalisa Franco , Davide Maltoni

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

A morph is created by combining two (or more) face images from two (or more) identities to create a composite image that is highly similar to all constituent identities, allowing the forged morph to be biometrically associated with more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Nitish Shukla , Arun Ross

Face morphing attacks seek to deceive a Face Recognition (FR) system by presenting a morphed image consisting of the biometric qualities from two different identities with the aim of triggering a false acceptance with one of the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Zander W. Blasingame , Chen Liu

Face morphing attacks circumvent face recognition systems (FRSs) by creating a morphed image that contains multiple identities. However, existing face morphing attack methods either sacrifice image quality or compromise the identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Zuyuan He , Zongyong Deng , Qiaoyun He , Qijun Zhao

Face Morphing Attacks pose a threat to the security of identity documents, especially with respect to a subsequent access control process, because it enables both individuals involved to exploit the same document. In this study, face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Roman Kessler , Kiran Raja , Juan Tapia , Christoph Busch

In this work, we introduce DifFoundMAD, a parameter-efficient D-MAD framework that exploits the generalisation capabilities of vision foundation models (FM) to capture discrepancies between suspected morphs and live capture images. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lazaro J. Gonzalez-Soler , André Dörsch , Christian Rathgeb , Christoph Busch

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

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

Facial images in passports are designated as primary identifiers for the verification of travelers according to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Hence, it is important to ascertain the sanctity of the facial images…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Abdullah Zafar , Christoph Busch

This paper proposes an explainable visualisation of different face feature extraction algorithms that enable the detection of bona fide and morphing images for single morphing attack detection. The feature extraction is based on raw image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Juan Tapia , Christoph Busch

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