English
Related papers

Related papers: Leveraging Diffusion For Strong and High Quality F…

200 papers

The success of face recognition (FR) systems has led to serious privacy concerns due to potential unauthorized surveillance and user tracking on social networks. Existing methods for enhancing privacy fail to generate natural face images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Liqin Wang , Qianyue Hu , Wei Lu , Xiangyang Luo

Face recognition systems (FRS) can be compromised by face morphing attacks, which blend textural and geometric information from multiple facial images. The rapid evolution of generative AI, especially Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Aravinda Reddy PN , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Sushma Venkatesh , Krothapalli Sreenivasa Rao , Pabitra Mitra , Rakesh Krishna

The rapid growth of social media has led to the widespread sharing of individual portrait images, which pose serious privacy risks due to the capabilities of automatic face recognition (AFR) systems for mass surveillance. Hence, protecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Ali Salar , Qing Liu , Yingli Tian , Guoying Zhao

Face anti-spoofing is crucial for ensuring the security and reliability of face recognition systems. Several existing face anti-spoofing methods utilize GAN-like networks to detect presentation attacks by estimating the noise pattern of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Bin Zhang , Xiangyu Zhu , Xiaoyu Zhang , Zhen Lei

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

In response to the rising threat of the face morphing attack, this paper introduces and explores the potential of Video-based Morphing Attack Detection (V-MAD) systems in real-world operational scenarios. While current morphing attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Guido Borghi , Annalisa Franco , Nicolò Di Domenico , Matteo Ferrara , Davide Maltoni

Morphing attacks have diversified significantly over the past years, with new methods based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion models posing substantial threats to face recognition systems. Recent research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Laurent Colbois , Sébastien Marcel

Detecting diffusion-generated images has recently grown into an emerging research area. Existing diffusion-based datasets predominantly focus on general image generation. However, facial forgeries, which pose a more severe social risk, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Harry Cheng , Yangyang Guo , Tianyi Wang , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Despite the considerable performance improvements of face recognition algorithms in recent years, the same scientific advances responsible for this progress can also be used to create efficient ways to attack them, posing a threat to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Eduarda Caldeira , Guray Ozgur , Tahar Chettaoui , Marija Ivanovska , Peter Peer , Fadi Boutros , Vitomir Struc , Naser Damer

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

This paper proposes an explainable visualisation of different face feature extraction algorithms that enable the detection of bona fide and morphing images for single morphing attack detection. The feature extraction is based on raw image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Juan Tapia , Christoph Busch

Despite the fact that DeepFake forgery detection algorithms have achieved impressive performance on known manipulations, they often face disastrous performance degradation when generalized to an unseen manipulation. Some recent works show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Chuer Yu , Xuhong Zhang , Yuxuan Duan , Senbo Yan , Zonghui Wang , Yang Xiang , Shouling Ji , Wenzhi Chen

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

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

Deepfakes pose significant security and privacy threats through malicious facial manipulations. While robust watermarking can aid in authenticity verification and source tracking, existing methods often lack the sufficient robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Chen Sun , Haiyang Sun , Zhiqing Guo , Yunfeng Diao , Liejun Wang , Dan Ma , Gaobo Yang , Keqin Li

Unveiling the real appearance of retouched faces to prevent malicious users from deceptive advertising and economic fraud has been an increasing concern in the era of digital economics. This article makes the first attempt to investigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Fengchuang Xing , Xiaowen Shi , Yuan-Gen Wang , Chunsheng Yang

Modern face recognition (FR) models excel in constrained scenarios, but often suffer from decreased performance when deployed in unconstrained (real-world) environments due to uncertainties surrounding the quality of the captured facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Žiga Babnik , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc

The rapid progress in deep learning has given rise to hyper-realistic facial forgery methods, leading to concerns related to misinformation and security risks. Existing face forgery datasets have limitations in generating high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Zhongxi Chen , Ke Sun , Ziyin Zhou , Xianming Lin , Xiaoshuai Sun , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

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

Face recognition poses serious privacy risks due to its reliance on sensitive and immutable biometric data. While modern systems mitigate privacy risks by mapping facial images to embeddings (commonly regarded as privacy-preserving), model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Hanrui Wang , Shuo Wang , Chun-Shien Lu , Isao Echizen