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A morphed face image is a synthetically created image that looks so similar to the faces of two subjects that both can use it for verification against a biometric verification system. It can be easily created by aligning and blending face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Clemens Seibold , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

State-of-the-art face recognition (FR) approaches have shown remarkable results in predicting whether two faces belong to the same identity, yielding accuracies between 92% and 100% depending on the difficulty of the protocol. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Stefan Hörmann , Tianlin Kong , Torben Teepe , Fabian Herzog , Martin Knoche , Gerhard Rigoll

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

Face recognition systems are widely deployed in high-security applications such as for biometric verification at border controls. Despite their high accuracy on pristine data, it is well-known that digital manipulations, such as face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Mathias Ibsen , Lázaro J. González-Soler , Christian Rathgeb , Christoph Busch

Face Recognition systems (FRS) have been found to be vulnerable to morphing attacks, where the morphed face image is generated by blending the face images from contributory data subjects. This work presents a novel direction for generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jag Mohan Singh , Raghavendra Ramachandra

In this work, we introduce DifFoundMAD, a parameter-efficient D-MAD framework that exploits the generalisation capabilities of vision foundation models (FM) to capture discrepancies between suspected morphs and live capture images. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lazaro J. Gonzalez-Soler , André Dörsch , Christian Rathgeb , Christoph Busch

Advancing face morphing attack techniques is crucial to anticipate evolving threats and develop robust defensive mechanisms for identity verification systems. This work introduces DCMorph, a dual-stream diffusion-based morphing framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Tahar Chettaoui , Eduarda Caldeira , Guray Ozgur , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer

Face morphing attacks can compromise Face Recognition System (FRS) by exploiting their vulnerability. Face Morphing Attack Detection (MAD) techniques have been developed in recent past to deter such attacks and mitigate risks from morphing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Christoph Busch

Face-morphing attacks have been a cause for concern for a number of years. Striving to remain one step ahead of attackers, researchers have proposed many methods of both creating and detecting morphed images. These detection methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Richard T. Marriott , Sami Romdhani , Stéphane Gentric , Liming Chen

Although biometric facial recognition systems are fast becoming part of security applications, these systems are still vulnerable to morphing attacks, in which a facial reference image can be verified as two or more separate identities. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Sobhan Soleymani , Baaria Chaudhary , Ali Dabouei , Jeremy Dawson , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Face morphing attack detection is emerging as an increasingly challenging problem owing to advancements in high-quality and realistic morphing attack generation. Reliable detection of morphing attacks is essential because these attacks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Raghavendra Ramachandra , Sushma Venkatesh , Naser Damer , Narayan Vetrekar , Rajendra Gad

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

Investigating new methods of creating face morphing attacks is essential to foresee novel attacks and help mitigate them. Creating morphing attacks is commonly either performed on the image-level or on the representation-level. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Naser Damer , Meiling Fang , Patrick Siebke , Jan Niklas Kolf , Marco Huber , Fadi Boutros

Face morphing attacks aim at creating face images that are verifiable to be the face of multiple identities, which can lead to building faulty identity links in operations like border checks. While creating a morphed face detector (MFD),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Naser Damer , Kiran Raja , Marius Süßmilch , Sushma Venkatesh , Fadi Boutros , Meiling Fang , Florian Kirchbuchner , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Arjan Kuijper

Face recognition systems are extremely vulnerable to morphing attacks, in which a morphed facial reference image can be successfully verified as two or more distinct identities. In this paper, we propose a morph attack detection algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Baaria Chaudhary , Poorya Aghdaie , Sobhan Soleymani , Jeremy Dawson , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Face morphing attacks pose a severe security threat to face recognition systems, enabling the morphed face image to be verified against multiple identities. To detect such manipulated images, the development of new face morphing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Marcel Grimmer , Christoph Busch

With the continuous advancement of generative models, face morphing attacks have become a significant challenge for existing face verification systems due to their potential use in identity fraud and other malicious activities. Contemporary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Marija Ivanovska , Leon Todorov , Naser Damer , Deepak Kumar Jain , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc

Face morphing attacks are widely recognized as one of the most challenging threats to face recognition systems used in electronic identity documents. These attacks exploit a critical vulnerability in passport enrollment procedures adopted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Nicolò Di Domenico , Annalisa Franco , Matteo Ferrara , Davide Maltoni

Morphing attacks are one of the many threats that are constantly affecting deep face recognition systems. It consists of selecting two faces from different individuals and fusing them into a final image that contains the identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Pedro C. Neto , Tiago Gonçalves , Marco Huber , Naser Damer , Ana F. Sequeira , Jaime S. Cardoso

The vulnerability of Face Recognition System (FRS) to various kind of attacks (both direct and in-direct attacks) and face morphing attacks has received a great interest from the biometric community. The goal of a morphing attack is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Sushma Venkatesh , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Christoph Busch