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Due to their convenience and high accuracy, face recognition systems are widely employed in governmental and personal security applications to automatically recognise individuals. Despite recent advances, face recognition systems have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Mathias Ibsen , Lázaro J. González-Soler , Christian Rathgeb , Pawel Drozdowski , Marta Gomez-Barrero , Christoph Busch

Synthetic data has emerged as a practical alternative to authentic face datasets for training face recognition (FR) systems, especially as privacy and legal concerns increasingly restrict the use of real biometric data. Recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Fadi Boutros , Eduarda Caldeira , Tahar Chettaoui , Naser Damer

Robust invisible watermarking aims to embed hidden information into images such that the watermark can survive various image manipulations. However, the rise of powerful diffusion-based image generation and editing techniques poses a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yunyi Ni , Finn Carter , Ze Niu , Emily Davis , Bo Zhang

Color plays an important role in human visual perception, reflecting the spectrum of objects. However, the existing infrared and visible image fusion methods rarely explore how to handle multi-spectral/channel data directly and achieve high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jun Yue , Leyuan Fang , Shaobo Xia , Yue Deng , Jiayi Ma

Robust invisible watermarking aims to embed hidden messages into images such that they survive various manipulations while remaining imperceptible. However, powerful diffusion-based image generation and editing models now enable realistic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Wenkai Fu , Finn Carter , Yue Wang , Emily Davis , Bo Zhang

Face morphing attacks threaten biometric verification, yet most morphing attack detection (MAD) systems require task-specific training and generalize poorly to unseen attack types. Meanwhile, open-source multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Marija Ivanovska , Vitomir Štruc

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) lack robustness against imperceptible perturbations to their input. Face Recognition Models (FRMs) based on DNNs inherit this vulnerability. We propose a methodology for assessing and characterizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Juan C. Pérez , Motasem Alfarra , Ali Thabet , Pablo Arbeláez , Bernard Ghanem

Biometric presentation attack detection is gaining increasing attention. Users of mobile devices find it more convenient to unlock their smart applications with finger, face or iris recognition instead of passwords. In this paper, we survey…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Yomna Safaa El-Din , Mohamed N. Moustafa , Hani Mahdi

Person Re-Identification (ReID) systems pose a significant security risk from backdoor attacks, allowing adversaries to evade tracking or impersonate others. Beyond recognizing this issue, we investigate how backdoor attacks can be deployed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Wenli Sun , Xinyang Jiang , Dongsheng Li , Cairong Zhao

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

Diffusion models have recently shown strong progress in generative tasks, offering a more stable alternative to GAN-based approaches for makeup transfer. Existing methods often suffer from limited datasets, poor disentanglement between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Qihe Pan , Yiming Wu , Xing Zhao , Liang Xie , Guodao Sun , Ronghua Liang

Biometric based authentication is currently playing an essential role over conventional authentication system; however, the risk of presentation attacks subsequently rising. Our research aims at identifying the areas where presentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Nyle Siddiqui , Rushit Dave

Adversarial examples have revealed the vulnerability of deep learning models and raised serious concerns about information security. The transfer-based attack is a hot topic in black-box attacks that are practical to real-world scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Jian-Wei Li , Wen-Ze Shao

Automatic border control systems are wide spread in modern airports worldwide. Morphing attacks on face biometrics is a serious threat that undermines the security and reliability of face recognition systems deployed in airports and border…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Sherko R. HmaSalah , Aras Asaad

The detection of malicious deepfakes is a constantly evolving problem that requires continuous monitoring of detectors to ensure they can detect image manipulations generated by the latest emerging models. In this paper, we investigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Marija Ivanovska , Vitomir Štruc

The proliferation of automated face recognition in the commercial and government sectors has caused significant privacy concerns for individuals. One approach to address these privacy concerns is to employ evasion attacks against the metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Harrison Rosenberg , Brian Tang , Kassem Fawaz , Somesh Jha

We introduce a new attack paradigm that embeds hidden adversarial capabilities directly into diffusion models via fine-tuning, without altering their observable behavior or requiring modifications during inference. Unlike prior approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Lucas Beerens , Desmond J. Higham

Morph images threaten Facial Recognition Systems (FRS) by presenting as multiple individuals, allowing an adversary to swap identities with another subject. Morph generation using generative adversarial networks (GANs) results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Samuel Price , Sobhan Soleymani , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

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

In this paper, we study the vulnerability of anti-spoofing methods based on deep learning against adversarial perturbations. We first show that attacking a CNN-based anti-spoofing face authentication system turns out to be a difficult task.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Bowen Zhang , Benedetta Tondi , Mauro Barni