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Deep learning-based systems have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks in both digital and physical domains. While feasible, digital attacks have limited applicability in attacking deployed systems, including face recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Dinh-Luan Nguyen , Sunpreet S. Arora , Yuhang Wu , Hao Yang

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

Biometric recognition is a trending technology that uses unique characteristics data to identify or verify/authenticate security applications. Amidst the classically used biometrics, voice and face attributes are the most propitious for…

In recent years, increasing deployment of face recognition technology in security-critical settings, such as border control or law enforcement, has led to considerable interest in the vulnerability of face recognition systems to attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Robert Nichols , Christian Rathgeb , Pawel Drozdowski , Christoph Busch

Face recognition (FR) systems have demonstrated outstanding verification performance, suggesting suitability for real-world applications ranging from photo tagging in social media to automated border control (ABC). In an advanced FR system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Fatemeh Vakhshiteh , Ahmad Nickabadi , Raghavendra Ramachandra

Face recognition systems are often used for biometric authentication. Nevertheless, it is known that without any protective measures, face recognition systems are vulnerable to presentation attacks. To tackle this security problem, methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Mathias Ibsen , Loris Tim Ide , Christian Rathgeb , Christoph Busch

The main scope of this chapter is to serve as an introduction to face presentation attack detection, including key resources and advances in the field in the last few years. The next pages present the different presentation attacks that a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Javier Hernandez-Ortega , Julian Fierrez , Aythami Morales , Javier Galbally

This work explores facial expression bias as a security vulnerability of face recognition systems. Despite the great performance achieved by state-of-the-art face recognition systems, the algorithms are still sensitive to a large range of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Alejandro Peña , Ignacio Serna , Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez , Agata Lapedriza

The use of biometrics to authenticate users and control access to secure areas has become extremely popular in recent years, and biometric access control systems are frequently used by both governments and private corporations. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Justin Spencer , Deborah Lawrence , Prosenjit Chatterjee , Kaushik Roy , Albert Esterline , Jung-Hee Kim

Facial recognition systems have become an integral part of the modern world. These methods accomplish the task of human identification in an automatic, fast, and non-interfering way. Past research has uncovered high vulnerability to simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Moritz Finke , Alexandra Dmitrienko

Face Recognition Systems (FRS) have increasingly integrated into critical applications, including surveillance and user authentication, highlighting their pivotal role in modern security systems. Recent studies have revealed vulnerabilities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Jiahao Chen , Zhiqiang Shen , Yuwen Pu , Chunyi Zhou , Changjiang Li , Jiliang Li , Ting Wang , Shouling Ji

Deep neural networks provide unprecedented performance in all image classification problems, taking advantage of huge amounts of data available for training. Recent studies, however, have shown their vulnerability to adversarial attacks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Diego Gragnaniello , Francesco Marra , Giovanni Poggi , Luisa Verdoliva

Biometric systems, such as face recognition systems powered by deep neural networks (DNNs), rely on large and highly sensitive datasets. Backdoor attacks can subvert these systems by manipulating the training process. By inserting a small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Farah Wahida , M. A. P. Chamikara , Yashothara Shanmugarasa , Mohan Baruwal Chhetri , Thilina Ranbaduge , Ibrahim Khalil

Images of morphed faces pose a serious threat to face recognition--based security systems, as they can be used to illegally verify the identity of multiple people with a single morphed image. Modern detection algorithms learn to identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Marija Ivanovska , Andrej Kronovšek , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc , Borut Batagelj

Backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to the training process of deep neural networks (DNNs). As a widely-used DNN-based application in real-world scenarios, face recognition systems once implanted into the backdoor, may cause serious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Ming Sun , Lihua Jing , Zixuan Zhu , Rui Wang

Protecting digital identities of human face from various attack vectors is paramount, and face anti-spoofing plays a crucial role in this endeavor. Current approaches primarily focus on detecting spoofing attempts within individual frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Xiang Xu , Tianchen Zhao , Zheng Zhang , Zhihua Li , Jon Wu , Alessandro Achille , Mani Srivastava

Biometric technologies are widely adopted in security, legal, and financial systems. Face recognition can authenticate a person based on the unique facial features such as shape and texture. However, recent works have demonstrated the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Poulami Raha , Yeongnam Chae

Face recognition has achieved considerable progress in recent years thanks to the development of deep neural networks, but it has recently been discovered that deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples. This means that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Xiaoliang Liu , Furao Shen , Jian Zhao , Changhai Nie

Face Recognition (FR) models have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples that subtly alter benign facial images, exposing blind spots in these systems, as well as protecting user privacy. End-to-end FR systems first obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Roland Croft , Brian Du , Darcy Joseph , Sharath Kumar

Recent studies have revealed the vulnerability of face recognition models against physical adversarial patches, which raises security concerns about the deployed face recognition systems. However, it is still challenging to ensure the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Tianyu Pang , Zihao Xiao , Hang Su , Jun Zhu