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Face morphing attacks compromise biometric security by creating document images that verify against multiple identities, posing significant risks from document issuance to border control. Differential Morphing Attack Detection (D-MAD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Raul Ismayilov , Luuk Spreeuwers

Face morphing attacks present a significant threat to face recognition systems used in electronic identity enrolment and border control, particularly in single-image morphing attack detection (S-MAD) scenarios where no trusted reference is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Diogo J. Paulo , Hugo Proença , João C. Neves

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

Face recognition has achieved unprecedented results, surpassing human capabilities in certain scenarios. However, these automatic solutions are not ready for production because they can be easily fooled by simple identity impersonation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Daniel Pérez-Cabo , David Jiménez-Cabello , Artur Costa-Pazo , Roberto J. López-Sastre

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

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

Morphing is a challenge to face recognition (FR) for which several morphing attack detection solutions have been proposed. We argue that face recognition and differential morphing attack detection (D-MAD) in principle perform very similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Una M. Kelly , Luuk J. Spreeuwers , Raymond N. J. Veldhuis

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

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

The vulnerability of facial recognition systems to face morphing attacks is well known. Many different approaches for morphing attack detection have been proposed in the scientific literature. However, the morphing attack detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Ulrich Scherhag , Christian Rathgeb , Johannes Merkle , Christoph Busch

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

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

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

Biometric systems are vulnerable to Presentation Attacks (PA) performed using various Presentation Attack Instruments (PAIs). Even though there are numerous Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) techniques based on both deep learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Zhe Kong , Wentian Zhang , Feng Liu , Wenhan Luo , Haozhe Liu , Linlin Shen , Raghavendra Ramachandra

Face Morphing Attack Detection (MAD) is a critical challenge in face recognition security, where attackers can fool systems by interpolating the identity information of two or more individuals into a single face image, resulting in samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Eduarda Caldeira , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer

Face morphing attacks circumvent face recognition systems (FRSs) by creating a morphed image that contains multiple identities. However, existing face morphing attack methods either sacrifice image quality or compromise the identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Zuyuan He , Zongyong Deng , Qiaoyun He , Qijun Zhao

The main question this work aims at answering is: "can morphing attack detection (MAD) solutions be successfully developed based on synthetic data?". Towards that, this work introduces the first synthetic-based MAD development dataset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Naser Damer , César Augusto Fontanillo López , Meiling Fang , Noémie Spiller , Minh Vu Pham , Fadi Boutros

Face Recognition Systems (FRS) are vulnerable to morph attacks. A face morph is created by combining multiple identities with the intention to fool FRS and making it match the morph with multiple identities. Current Morph Attack Detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Nitish Shukla

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 pose a threat to the security of identity documents, especially with respect to a subsequent access control process, because it enables both individuals involved to exploit the same document. In this study, face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Roman Kessler , Kiran Raja , Juan Tapia , Christoph Busch