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Biometric technologies are widely adopted in security, legal, and financial systems. Face recognition can authenticate a person based on the unique facial features such as shape and texture. However, recent works have demonstrated the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Poulami Raha , Yeongnam Chae

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital security, biometric authentication systems, particularly facial recognition, have emerged as integral components of various security protocols. However, the reliability of these systems is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Oleksandr Kuznetsov , Emanuele Frontoni , Luca Romeo , Riccardo Rosati , Andrea Maranesi , Alessandro Muscatello

Remote identity verification is essential for modern digital security; however, it remains highly vulnerable to sophisticated Presentation Attacks (PAs) that utilise forged or manipulated identity documents. Although Deep Learning (DL) has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Esteban M. Ruiz , Juan E. Tapia , Reinel T. Soto , Christoph Busch

Recently, face swapping has been developing rapidly and achieved a surprising reality, raising concerns about fake content. As a countermeasure, various detection approaches have been proposed and achieved promising performance. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yuxuan Duan , Xuhong Zhang , Chuer Yu , Zonghui Wang , Shouling Ji , Wenzhi Chen

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

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

Presentation attacks are posing major challenges to most of the biometric modalities. Iris recognition, which is considered as one of the most accurate biometric modality for person identification, has also been shown to be vulnerable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Mehak Gupta , Vishal Singh , Akshay Agarwal , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

Fingerprint presentation attack detection is becoming an increasingly challenging problem due to the continuous advancement of attack preparation techniques, which generate realistic-looking fake fingerprint presentations. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Leonidas Spinoulas , Hengameh Mirzaalian , Mohamed Hussein , Wael AbdAlmageed

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

An iris biometric system can be compromised by presentation attacks (PAs) where artifacts such as artificial eyes, printed eye images, or cosmetic contact lenses are presented to the system. To counteract this, several presentation attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Shivangi Yadav , Arun Ross

In this work, we present a general framework for building a biometrics system capable of capturing multispectral data from a series of sensors synchronized with active illumination sources. The framework unifies the system design for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Leonidas Spinoulas , Mohamed Hussein , David Geissbühler , Joe Mathai , Oswin G. Almeida , Guillaume Clivaz , Sébastien Marcel , Wael AbdAlmageed

A practical face recognition system demands not only high recognition performance, but also the capability of detecting spoofing attacks. While emerging approaches of face anti-spoofing have been proposed in recent years, most of them do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Xiaoguang Tu , Hengsheng Zhang , Mei Xie , Yao Luo , Yuefei Zhang , Zheng Ma

Face anti-spoofing (FAS) and face forgery detection play vital roles in securing face biometric systems from presentation attacks (PAs) and vicious digital manipulation (e.g., deepfakes). Despite promising performance upon large-scale data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Zitong Yu , Rizhao Cai , Zhi Li , Wenhan Yang , Jingang Shi , Alex C. Kot

The accurate detection of ID card Presentation Attacks (PA) is becoming increasingly important due to the rising number of online/remote services that require the presentation of digital photographs of ID cards for digital onboarding or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Reuben Markham , Juan M. Espin , Mario Nieto-Hidalgo , Juan E. Tapia

With the increasing integration of smartphones into our daily lives, fingerphotos are becoming a potential contactless authentication method. While it offers convenience, it is also more vulnerable to spoofing using various presentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Banafsheh Adami , Sara Tehranipoor , Nasser Nasrabadi , Nima Karimian

The increasing realism and accessibility of deepfakes have raised critical concerns about media authenticity and information integrity. Despite recent advances, deepfake detection models often struggle to generalize beyond their training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Stelios Mylonas , Symeon Papadopoulos

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

Recent progress in face detection (including keypoint detection), and recognition is mainly being driven by (i) deeper convolutional neural network architectures, and (ii) larger datasets. However, most of the large datasets are maintained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Ankan Bansal , Anirudh Nanduri , Carlos Castillo , Rajeev Ranjan , Rama Chellappa

Foundation models are becoming increasingly popular due to their strong generalization capabilities resulting from being trained on huge datasets. These generalization capabilities are attractive in areas such as NIR Iris Presentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Juan E. Tapia , Lázaro Janier González-Soler , Christoph Busch

A MasterFace is a face image that can successfully match against a large portion of the population. Since their generation does not require access to the information of the enrolled subjects, MasterFace attacks represent a potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Philipp Terhörst , Florian Bierbaum , Marco Huber , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Kiran Raja , Arjan Kuijper