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In recent years face recognition systems have been brought to the mainstream due to development in hardware and software. Consistent efforts are being made to make them better and more secure. This has also brought developments in 3D face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Sanjeet Vardam , Luuk Spreeuwers

Investigating new methods of creating face morphing attacks is essential to foresee novel attacks and help mitigate them. Creating morphing attacks is commonly either performed on the image-level or on the representation-level. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Naser Damer , Meiling Fang , Patrick Siebke , Jan Niklas Kolf , Marco Huber , Fadi Boutros

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 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

Face morphing attacks aim at creating face images that are verifiable to be the face of multiple identities, which can lead to building faulty identity links in operations like border checks. While creating a morphed face detector (MFD),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Naser Damer , Kiran Raja , Marius Süßmilch , Sushma Venkatesh , Fadi Boutros , Meiling Fang , Florian Kirchbuchner , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Arjan Kuijper

Face morphing attack detection (MAD) algorithms have become essential to overcome the vulnerability of face recognition systems. To solve the lack of large-scale and public-available datasets due to privacy concerns and restrictions, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Haoyu Zhang , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Christoph Busch

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

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

Automatic border control systems are wide spread in modern airports worldwide. Morphing attacks on face biometrics is a serious threat that undermines the security and reliability of face recognition systems deployed in airports and border…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Sherko R. HmaSalah , Aras Asaad

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

Semantic face image manipulation has received increasing attention in recent years. StyleGAN-based approaches to face morphing are among the leading techniques; however, they often suffer from noticeable blurring and artifacts as a result…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Na Zhang , Xudong Liu , Xin Li , Guo-Jun Qi

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

Due to its convenience, biometric authentication, especial face authentication, has become increasingly mainstream and thus is now a prime target for attackers. Presentation attacks and face morphing are typical types of attack. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Huy H. Nguyen , Junichi Yamagishi , Isao Echizen , Sébastien Marcel

Face-morphing attacks are a growing concern for biometric researchers, as they can be used to fool face recognition systems (FRS). These attacks can be generated at the image level (supervised) or representation level (unsupervised).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Aravinda Reddy PN , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Krothapalli Sreenivasa Rao , Pabitra Mitra

Ocular biometrics in the visible spectrum have emerged as a prominent modality due to their high accuracy, resistance to spoofing, and non-invasive nature. However, morphing attacks, synthetic biometric traits created by blending features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Bharath Krishnamurthy , Ajita Rattani

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 Recognition systems (FRS) have been found to be vulnerable to morphing attacks, where the morphed face image is generated by blending the face images from contributory data subjects. This work presents a novel direction for generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jag Mohan Singh , Raghavendra Ramachandra

In a biometric system, each biometric sample or template is typically associated with a single identity. However, recent research has demonstrated the possibility of generating "morph" biometric samples that can successfully match more than…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Sushanta K. Pani , Anurag Chowdhury , Morgan Sandler , Arun Ross

Morphing is a challenge to face recognition (FR) for which several morphing attack detection solutions have been proposed. We argue that face recognition and differential morphing attack detection (D-MAD) in principle perform very similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Una M. Kelly , Luuk J. Spreeuwers , Raymond N. J. Veldhuis

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