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Face presentation attack detection (fPAD) plays a critical role in the modern face recognition pipeline. A face presentation attack detection model with good generalization can be obtained when it is trained with face images from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Rui Shao , Pramuditha Perera , Pong C. Yuen , Vishal M. Patel

Face anti-spoofing (FAS) plays a vital role in securing the face recognition systems from presentation attacks. Most existing FAS methods capture various cues (e.g., texture, depth and reflection) to distinguish the live faces from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Zitong Yu , Xiaobai Li , Xuesong Niu , Jingang Shi , Guoying Zhao

The human face has a high potential for biometric identification due to its many individual traits. At the same time, such identification is vulnerable to biometric copies. These presentation attacks pose a great challenge in unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Martin Thümmel , Sven Sickert , Joachim Denzler

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 Anti-spoofing (FAS) is essential to secure face recognition systems from various physical attacks. However, most of the studies lacked consideration of long-distance scenarios. Specifically, compared with FAS in traditional scenes such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Hao Fang , Ajian Liu , Jun Wan , Sergio Escalera , Hugo Jair Escalante , Zhen Lei

Identity authentication is the process of verifying one's identity. There are several identity authentication methods, among which biometric authentication is of utmost importance. Facial recognition is a sort of biometric authentication…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Matineh Pooshideh

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

The robustness and generalization ability of Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) methods is critical to ensure the security of Face Recognition Systems (FRSs). However, in a real scenario, Presentation Attacks (PAs) are various and it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Wentian Zhang , Haozhe Liu , Feng Liu , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Christoph Busch

With the rapid progress over the past five years, face authentication has become the most pervasive biometric recognition method. Thanks to the high-accuracy recognition performance and user-friendly usage, automatic face recognition (AFR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Chenqi Kong , Shiqi Wang , Haoliang Li

Facial cosmetics have the ability to substantially alter the facial appearance, which can negatively affect the decisions of a face recognition. In addition, it was recently shown that the application of makeup can be abused to launch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Christian Rathgeb , Pawel Drozdowski , Christoph Busch

Recent advances in biometric systems have significantly improved the detection and prevention of fraudulent activities. However, as detection methods improve, attack techniques become increasingly sophisticated. Attacks on face recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Lazaro Janier Gonzalez-Soler , Maciej Salwowski , Christoph Busch

Presentation attacks represent a critical security threat where adversaries use fake biometric data, such as face, fingerprint, or iris images, to gain unauthorized access to protected systems. Various presentation attack detection (PAD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Rashik Shadman , M G Sarwar Murshed , Faraz Hussain

In order to effectively prevent the spread of COVID-19 virus, almost everyone wears a mask during coronavirus epidemic. This almost makes conventional facial recognition technology ineffective in many cases, such as community access…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Zhongyuan Wang , Guangcheng Wang , Baojin Huang , Zhangyang Xiong , Qi Hong , Hao Wu , Peng Yi , Kui Jiang , Nanxi Wang , Yingjiao Pei , Heling Chen , Yu Miao , Zhibing Huang , Jinbi Liang

We study the problem of fingerprint presentation attack detection (PAD) under unknown PA materials not seen during PAD training. A dataset of 5,743 bonafide and 4,912 PA images of 12 different materials is used to evaluate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Tarang Chugh , Anil K. Jain

Face morphing attack detection (MAD) algorithms have become essential to overcome the vulnerability of face recognition systems. To solve the lack of large-scale and public-available datasets due to privacy concerns and restrictions, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Haoyu Zhang , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Christoph Busch

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been used in digital forensics to identify fake facial images. We investigated several DNN-based forgery forensics models (FFMs) to examine whether they are secure against adversarial attacks. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Rong Huang , Fuming Fang , Huy H. Nguyen , Junichi Yamagishi , Isao Echizen

Without deploying face anti-spoofing countermeasures, face recognition systems can be spoofed by presenting a printed photo, a video, or a silicon mask of a genuine user. Thus, face presentation attack detection (PAD) plays a vital role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Usman Muhammad , Mourad Oussalah

Modern face recognition systems (FRS) still fall short when the subjects are wearing facial masks, a common theme in the age of respiratory pandemics. An intuitive partial remedy is to add a mask detector to flag any masked faces so that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Jiayi Zhu , Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Yihao Huang , Yang Liu , Geguang Pu

Face Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) plays a pivotal role in securing face recognition systems against spoofing attacks. Although great progress has been made in designing face PAD methods, developing a model that can generalize well to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Usman Muhammad , Jorma Laaksonen , Djamila Romaissa Beddiar , Mourad Oussalah

Morphing attacks is a threat to biometric systems where the biometric reference in an identity document can be altered. This form of attack presents an important issue in applications relying on identity documents such as border security or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Eklavya Sarkar , Pavel Korshunov , Laurent Colbois , Sébastien Marcel