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The misuse of deep learning-based facial manipulation poses a significant threat to civil rights. To prevent this fraud at its source, proactive defense has been proposed to disrupt the manipulation process by adding invisible adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Zuomin Qu , Wei Lu , Xiangyang Luo , Qian Wang , Xiaochun Cao

The state-of-the-art performance of deep learning algorithms has led to a considerable increase in the utilization of machine learning in security-sensitive and critical applications. However, it has recently been shown that a small and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Ali Dabouei , Sobhan Soleymani , Jeremy Dawson , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital security, biometric authentication systems, particularly facial recognition, have emerged as integral components of various security protocols. However, the reliability of these systems is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Oleksandr Kuznetsov , Emanuele Frontoni , Luca Romeo , Riccardo Rosati , Andrea Maranesi , Alessandro Muscatello

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

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

Recent advancements in diffusion models have made generative image editing more accessible, enabling creative edits but raising ethical concerns, particularly regarding malicious edits to human portraits that threaten privacy and identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Hanhui Wang , Yihua Zhang , Ruizheng Bai , Yue Zhao , Sijia Liu , Zhengzhong Tu

Biometric-based authentication systems are getting broadly adopted in many areas. However, these systems do not allow participating users to influence the way their data is used. Furthermore, the data may leak and can be misused without the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Lubos Mjachky , Ivan Homoliak

Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs) can generate photo-realistic fake facial images which are perceptually indistinguishable from real face photos, promoting research on fake face detection. Though fake face forensics can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Yongwei Wang , Xin Ding , Li Ding , Rabab Ward , Z. Jane Wang

Face Recognition (FR) systems are being used in a variety of applications, including road crossings, banking, and mobile banking. The widespread use of FR systems has raised concerns about the safety of face biometrics against spoofing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Soham S. Sarpotdar

Face recognition systems are widely deployed for biometric authentication. Despite this, it is well-known that, without any safeguards, face recognition systems are highly vulnerable to presentation attacks. In response to this security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 M. Ibsen , C. Rathgeb , F. Brechtel , R. Klepp , K. Pöppelmann , A. George , S. Marcel , C. Busch

A biometric recognition system can operate in two distinct modes: identification or verification. In the first mode, the system recognizes an individual by searching the enrolled templates of all the users for a match. In the second mode,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Axel Durbet , Paul-Marie Grollemund , Kevin Thiry-Atighehchi

Applications based on biometric authentication have received a lot of interest in the last years due to the breathtaking results obtained using personal traits such as face or fingerprint. However, it is important not to forget that these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Carlos Gonzalez-Garcia , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Julian Fierrez , Javier Ortega-Garcia

Nowadays, the adoption of face recognition for biometric authentication systems is usual, mainly because this is one of the most accessible biometric modalities. Techniques that rely on trespassing these kind of systems by using a forged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Rodrigo Bresan , Allan Pinto , Anderson Rocha , Carlos Beluzo , Tiago Carvalho

The advance of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) enables realistic face image synthesis. However, synthesizing face images that preserve facial identity as well as have high diversity within each identity remains challenging. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Yujun Shen , Bolei Zhou , Ping Luo , Xiaoou Tang

A face morph is created by combining two face images corresponding to two identities to produce a composite that successfully matches both the constituent identities. Reference-free (RF) demorphing reverses this process using only the morph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Nitish Shukla , Arun Ross

The increase in security concerns due to technological advancements has led to the popularity of biometric approaches that utilize physiological or behavioral characteristics for enhanced recognition. Face recognition systems (FRSs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Joana Pimenta , Iurii Medvedev , Nuno Gonçalves

Deepfake or synthetic images produced using deep generative models pose serious risks to online platforms. This has triggered several research efforts to accurately detect deepfake images, achieving excellent performance on publicly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Sifat Muhammad Abdullah , Aravind Cheruvu , Shravya Kanchi , Taejoong Chung , Peng Gao , Murtuza Jadliwala , Bimal Viswanath

Face enhancement techniques are widely used to enhance facial appearance. However, they can inadvertently distort biometric features, leading to significant decrease in the accuracy of deepfake detectors. This study hypothesizes that these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Muhammad Saad Saeed , Ijaz Ul Haq , Khalid Malik

The availability of large-scale face datasets has been key in the progress of face recognition. However, due to licensing issues or copyright infringement, some datasets are not available anymore (e.g. MS-Celeb-1M). Recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Laurent Colbois , Tiago de Freitas Pereira , Sébastien Marcel

DeepFake face swapping presents a significant threat to online security and social media, which can replace the source face in an arbitrary photo/video with the target face of an entirely different person. In order to prevent this fraud,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Junhao Dong , Yuan Wang , Jianhuang Lai , Xiaohua Xie