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Unsupervised anomaly detection is a critical task in many high-social-impact applications such as finance, healthcare, social media, and cybersecurity, where demographics involving age, gender, race, disease, etc, are used frequently. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Feng Xiao , Xiaoying Tang , Jicong Fan

Face presentation attack detection plays a critical role in the modern face recognition pipeline. A face presentation attack detection model with good generalization can be obtained when it is trained with face images from different input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Rui Shao , Pramuditha Perera , Pong C. Yuen , Vishal M. Patel

The lack of a common platform and benchmark datasets for evaluating face obfuscation methods has been a challenge, with every method being tested using arbitrary experiments, datasets, and metrics. While prior work has demonstrated that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Seyyed Mohammad Sadegh Moosavi Khorzooghi , Poojitha Thota , Mohit Singhal , Abolfazl Asudeh , Gautam Das , Shirin Nilizadeh

Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) has been extensively studied, particularly in the visible spectrum. With the advancement of sensing technology beyond the visible range, multispectral imaging has gained significant attention in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Narayan Vetrekar , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Sushma Venkatesh , Jyoti D. Pawar , R. S. Gad

We propose an experimental method for measuring bias in face recognition systems. Existing methods to measure bias depend on benchmark datasets that are collected in the wild and annotated for protected (e.g., race, gender) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Hao Liang , Pietro Perona , Guha Balakrishnan

Recent face presentation attack detection (PAD) leverages domain adaptation (DA) and domain generalization (DG) techniques to address performance degradation on unknown domains. However, DA-based PAD methods require access to unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Meiling Fang , Naser Damer

Face anti-spoofing algorithms play a pivotal role in the robust deployment of face recognition systems against presentation attacks. Conventionally, full facial images are required by such systems to correctly authenticate individuals, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Vaibhav Sundharam , Abhijit Sarkar , A. Lynn Abbott

A large number of deep neural network based techniques have been developed to address the challenging problem of face presentation attack detection (PAD). Whereas such techniques' focus has been on improving PAD performance in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Hengameh Mirzaalian , Mohamed E. Hussein , Leonidas Spinoulas , Jonathan May , Wael Abd-Almageed

Recognition of expressions of emotions and affect from facial images is a well-studied research problem in the fields of affective computing and computer vision with a large number of datasets available containing facial images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Tian Xu , Jennifer White , Sinan Kalkan , Hatice Gunes

PAD and FFD are proposed to protect face data from physical media-based Presentation Attacks and digital editing-based DeepFakes, respectively. However, isolated training of these two models significantly increases vulnerability towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Ajian Liu , Haocheng Yuan , Xiao Guo , Hui Ma , Wanyi Zhuang , Changtao Miao , Yan Hong , Chuanbiao Song , Jun Lan , Qi Chu , Tao Gong , Yanyan Liang , Weiqiang Wang , Jun Wan , Xiaoming Liu , Zhen Lei

Bias in computer vision systems can perpetuate or even amplify discrimination against certain populations. Considering that bias is often introduced by biased visual datasets, many recent research efforts focus on training fair models using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ioannis Sarridis , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos , Christos Diou

Fingerprint recognition systems are widely deployed in various real-life applications as they have achieved high accuracy. The widely used applications include border control, automated teller machine (ATM), and attendance monitoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Jag Mohan Singh , Ahmed Madhun , Guoqiang Li , Raghavendra Ramachandra

Face recognition (FR) systems have a growing effect on critical decision-making processes. Recent works have shown that FR solutions show strong performance differences based on the user's demographics. However, to enable a trustworthy FR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Philipp Terhörst , Jan Niklas Kolf , Marco Huber , Florian Kirchbuchner , Naser Damer , Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez , Arjan Kuijper

Face recognition and verification are two computer vision tasks whose performance has progressed with the introduction of deep representations. However, ethical, legal, and technical challenges due to the sensitive character of face data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Alexandre Fournier-Montgieux , Michael Soumm , Adrian Popescu , Bertrand Luvison , Hervé Le Borgne

With the widespread use of biometric systems, the demographic bias problem raises more attention. Although many studies addressed bias issues in biometric verification, there are no works that analyze the bias in presentation attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Meiling Fang , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

Presentation attack detection (PAD) is a critical component in secure face authentication. We present a PAD algorithm to distinguish face spoofs generated by a photograph of a subject from live images. Our method uses an image decomposition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Shlok Kumar Mishra , Kuntal Sengupta , Max Horowitz-Gelb , Wen-Sheng Chu , Sofien Bouaziz , David Jacobs

Face recognition is a long standing challenge in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The goal is to create systems that accurately detect, recognize, verify, and understand human faces. There are significant technical hurdles in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Michele Merler , Nalini Ratha , Rogerio S. Feris , John R. Smith

We reveal critical insights into problems of bias in state-of-the-art facial recognition (FR) systems using a novel Balanced Faces In the Wild (BFW) dataset: data balanced for gender and ethnic groups. We show variations in the optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Joseph P Robinson , Gennady Livitz , Yann Henon , Can Qin , Yun Fu , Samson Timoner

Facial recognition systems are increasingly deployed in law enforcement and security contexts, where algorithmic decisions can carry significant societal consequences. Despite high reported accuracy, growing evidence demonstrates that such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Khalid Adnan Alsayed

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