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Morphing attacks keep threatening biometric systems, especially face recognition systems. Over time they have become simpler to perform and more realistic, as such, the usage of deep learning systems to detect these attacks has grown. At…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Eduarda Caldeira , Pedro C. Neto , Tiago Gonçalves , Naser Damer , Ana F. Sequeira , Jaime S. Cardoso

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

Recent works have demonstrated the feasibility of inverting face recognition systems, enabling to recover convincing face images using only their embeddings. We leverage such template inversion models to develop a novel type ofdeep morphing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Laurent Colbois , Hatef Otroshi Shahreza , Sébastien Marcel

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

Face morphing attack detection is emerging as an increasingly challenging problem owing to advancements in high-quality and realistic morphing attack generation. Reliable detection of morphing attacks is essential because these attacks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Raghavendra Ramachandra , Sushma Venkatesh , Naser Damer , Narayan Vetrekar , Rajendra Gad

Morphing Attack Detection (MAD) is a relevant topic that aims to detect attempts by unauthorised individuals to access a "valid" identity. One of the main scenarios is printing morphed images and submitting the respective print in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Juan E. Tapia , Maximilian Russo , Christoph Busch

With the continuous advancement of generative models, face morphing attacks have become a significant challenge for existing face verification systems due to their potential use in identity fraud and other malicious activities. Contemporary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Marija Ivanovska , Leon Todorov , Naser Damer , Deepak Kumar Jain , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc

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

We present the task of differential face morph attack detection using a conditional generative network (cGAN). To determine whether a face image in an identification document, such as a passport, is morphed or not, we propose an algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Sudipta Banerjee , Arun Ross

Recently, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and image manipulating methods are becoming more powerful and can produce highly realistic face images beyond human recognition which have raised significant concerns regarding the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Kritaphat Songsri-in , Stefanos Zafeiriou

This study investigates the impact of face image background correction through segmentation on face recognition and morphing attack detection performance in realistic, unconstrained image capture scenarios. The motivation is driven by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Eduarda Caldeira , Guray Ozgur , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer

Face Recognition Systems (FRS) are widely used in commercial environments, such as e-commerce and e-banking, owing to their high accuracy in real-world conditions. However, these systems are vulnerable to facial morphing attacks, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Jag Mohan Singh , Raghavendra Ramachandra

The main question this work aims at answering is: "can morphing attack detection (MAD) solutions be successfully developed based on synthetic data?". Towards that, this work introduces the first synthetic-based MAD development dataset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Naser Damer , César Augusto Fontanillo López , Meiling Fang , Noémie Spiller , Minh Vu Pham , Fadi Boutros

In the recent past, different researchers have proposed privacy-enhancing face recognition systems designed to conceal soft-biometric attributes at feature level. These works have reported impressive results, but generally did not consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Dailé Osorio-Roig , Christian Rathgeb , Pawel Drozdowski , Philipp Terhörst , Vitomir Štruc , Christoph Busch

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

Advancing face morphing attack techniques is crucial to anticipate evolving threats and develop robust defensive mechanisms for identity verification systems. This work introduces DCMorph, a dual-stream diffusion-based morphing framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Tahar Chettaoui , Eduarda Caldeira , Guray Ozgur , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer

Deepfakes pose severe threats of visual misinformation to our society. One representative deepfake application is face manipulation that modifies a victim's facial attributes in an image, e.g., changing her age or hair color. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Zheng Li , Ning Yu , Ahmed Salem , Michael Backes , Mario Fritz , Yang Zhang

This work investigates the well-known problem of morphing attacks, which has drawn considerable attention in the biometrics community. Morphed images have exposed face recognition systems' susceptibility to false acceptance, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Poorya Aghdaie , Baaria Chaudhary , Sobhan Soleymani , Jeremy Dawson , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Face morphing attacks pose a substantial risk to the reliability of face recognition systems used in passport issuance, border control, and digital identity verification. Detecting morphing attacks from a single facial image remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Raghavendra Ramachandra

A facial morph is an image strategically created by combining two face images pertaining to two distinct identities. The goal is to create a face image that can be matched to two different identities by a face matcher. Face demorphing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Nitish Shukla , Arun Ross