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In response to the rising threat of the face morphing attack, this paper introduces and explores the potential of Video-based Morphing Attack Detection (V-MAD) systems in real-world operational scenarios. While current morphing attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Guido Borghi , Annalisa Franco , Nicolò Di Domenico , Matteo Ferrara , Davide Maltoni

The vulnerability of facial recognition systems to face morphing attacks is well known. Many different approaches for morphing attack detection have been proposed in the scientific literature. However, the morphing attack detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Ulrich Scherhag , Christian Rathgeb , Johannes Merkle , Christoph Busch

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

A MasterFace is a face image that can successfully match against a large portion of the population. Since their generation does not require access to the information of the enrolled subjects, MasterFace attacks represent a potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Philipp Terhörst , Florian Bierbaum , Marco Huber , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Kiran Raja , Arjan Kuijper

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 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

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

Morphing attacks have diversified significantly over the past years, with new methods based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion models posing substantial threats to face recognition systems. Recent research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Laurent Colbois , Sébastien Marcel

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

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

Morphed face images have recently become a growing concern for existing face verification systems, as they are relatively easy to generate and can be used to impersonate someone's identity for various malicious purposes. Efficient Morphing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Marija Ivanovska , Vitomir Štruc

Few studies have focused on examining how people recognize morphing attacks, even as several publications have examined the susceptibility of automated FRS and offered morphing attack detection (MAD) approaches. MAD approaches base their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Sankini Rancha Godage , Frøy Løvåsdal , Sushma Venkatesh , Kiran Raja , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Christoph Busch

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 Systems (FRS) are vulnerable to various attacks performed directly and indirectly. Among these attacks, face morphing attacks are highly potential in deceiving automatic FRS and human observers and indicate a severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Jag Mohan Singh , Raghavendra Ramachandra

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

Face morphing attacks threaten biometric verification, yet most morphing attack detection (MAD) systems require task-specific training and generalize poorly to unseen attack types. Meanwhile, open-source multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Marija Ivanovska , Vitomir Štruc

Face morphing attacks present a significant threat to face recognition systems used in electronic identity enrolment and border control, particularly in single-image morphing attack detection (S-MAD) scenarios where no trusted reference is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Diogo J. Paulo , Hugo Proença , João C. Neves

Face morphing attacks compromise biometric security by creating document images that verify against multiple identities, posing significant risks from document issuance to border control. Differential Morphing Attack Detection (D-MAD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Raul Ismayilov , Luuk Spreeuwers

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

Face Recognition Systems (FRS) are vulnerable to morph attacks. A face morph is created by combining multiple identities with the intention to fool FRS and making it match the morph with multiple identities. Current Morph Attack Detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Nitish Shukla