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Face morphing attacks pose a substantial risk to the reliability of face recognition systems used in passport issuance, border control, and digital identity verification. Detecting morphing attacks from a single facial image remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Raghavendra Ramachandra

In this paper, we consider the challenge of face morphing attacks, which substantially undermine the integrity of face recognition systems such as those adopted for use in border protection agencies. Morph detection can be formulated as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Poorya Aghdaie , Baaria Chaudhary , Sobhan Soleymani , Jeremy Dawson , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

The vulnerability of face recognition systems to morphing attacks has posed a serious security threat due to the wide adoption of face biometrics in the real world. Most existing morphing attack detection (MAD) methods require a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Na Zhang , Shan Jia , Siwei Lyu , Xin Li

Face morphing attacks have raised critical concerns as they demonstrate a new vulnerability of Face Recognition Systems (FRS), which are widely deployed in border control applications. The face morphing process uses the images from multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Sushma Venkatesh , Kiran Raja , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Christoph Busch

Face morphing attacks target to circumvent Face Recognition Systems (FRS) by employing face images derived from multiple data subjects (e.g., accomplices and malicious actors). Morphed images can be verified against contributing data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Haoyu Zhang , Sushma Venkatesh , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Naser Damer , Christoph Busch

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 investigates the use of synthetic face data to enhance Single-Morphing Attack Detection (S-MAD), addressing the limitations of availability of large-scale datasets of bona fide images due to privacy concerns. Various morphing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 David Benavente-Rios , Juan Ruiz Rodriguez , Gustavo Gatica

Face recognition has evolved significantly with the advancement of deep learning techniques, enabling its widespread adoption in various applications requiring secure authentication. However, this progress has also increased its exposure to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Iurii Medvedev , Nuno Goncalves

Morphing attacks are a form of presentation attacks that gathered increasing attention in recent years. A morphed image can be successfully verified to multiple identities. This operation, therefore, poses serious security issues related to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Biying Fu , Naser Damer

Face morphing attacks have emerged as a potential threat, particularly in automatic border control scenarios. Morphing attacks permit more than one individual to use travel documents that can be used to cross borders using automatic border…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Raghavendra Ramachandra , Sushma Venkatesh , Gaurav Jaswal , Guoqiang Li

Deformable image registration is one of the fundamental tasks in medical imaging. Classical registration algorithms usually require a high computational cost for iterative optimizations. Although deep-learning-based methods have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-30 Boah Kim , Inhwa Han , Jong Chul Ye

Face morphing attacks represent a significant threat to biometric systems as they allow multiple identities to be combined into a single face. While supervised morphing attack detection (MAD) methods have shown promising performance, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Diogo J. Paulo , Hugo Proença , João C. Neves

Face Recognition Systems (FRS) are critical for security but remain vulnerable to morphing attacks, where synthetic images blend biometric features from multiple individuals. We propose a novel Single-Image Morphing Attack Detection (S-MAD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ria Shekhawat , Sushrut Patwardhan , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Praveen Kumar Chandaliya , Kishor P. Upla

Face morphing attacks have posed severe threats to Face Recognition Systems (FRS), which are operated in border control and passport issuance use cases. Correspondingly, morphing attack detection algorithms (MAD) are needed to defend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Haoyu Zhang , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Christoph Busch

Face recognition is widely employed in Automated Border Control (ABC) gates, which verify the face image on passport or electronic Machine Readable Travel Document (eMTRD) against the captured image to confirm the identity of the passport…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Jag Mohan Singh , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran B. Raja , Christoph Busch

Face morphing attacks pose an increasing threat to face recognition (FR) systems. A morphed photo contains biometric information from two different subjects to take advantage of vulnerabilities in FRs. These systems are particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Richard E. Neddo , Zander W. Blasingame , Chen Liu

Morphing attacks keep threatening biometric systems, especially face recognition systems. Over time they have become simpler to perform and more realistic, as such, the usage of deep learning systems to detect these attacks has grown. At…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Eduarda Caldeira , Pedro C. Neto , Tiago Gonçalves , Naser Damer , Ana F. Sequeira , Jaime S. Cardoso

The primary objective of face morphing is to combine face images of different data subjects (e.g. a malicious actor and an accomplice) to generate a face image that can be equally verified for both contributing data subjects. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Sushma Venkatesh , Haoyu Zhang , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Naser Damer , Christoph Busch

Face morphing attack is proved to be a serious threat to the existing face recognition systems. Although a few face morphing detection methods have been put forward, the face morphing accomplice's facial restoration remains a challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Fei Peng , Le-bing Zhang , Min Long

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