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Morphing attacks have diversified significantly over the past years, with new methods based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion models posing substantial threats to face recognition systems. Recent research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Laurent Colbois , Sébastien Marcel

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

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 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 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

Due to their convenience and high accuracy, face recognition systems are widely employed in governmental and personal security applications to automatically recognise individuals. Despite recent advances, face recognition systems have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Mathias Ibsen , Lázaro J. González-Soler , Christian Rathgeb , Pawel Drozdowski , Marta Gomez-Barrero , Christoph Busch

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

Morphing Attack Detection (MAD) is a relevant topic that aims to detect attempts by unauthorised individuals to access a "valid" identity. One of the main scenarios is printing morphed images and submitting the respective print in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Juan E. Tapia , Maximilian Russo , Christoph Busch

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

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 represents nowadays a big security threat in the context of electronic identity documents as well as an interesting challenge for researchers in the field of face recognition. Despite of the good performance obtained by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Matteo Ferrara , Annalisa Franco , Davide Maltoni

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

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 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

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 threaten biometric verification, yet most morphing attack detection (MAD) systems require task-specific training and generalize poorly to unseen attack types. Meanwhile, open-source multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Marija Ivanovska , Vitomir Štruc

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

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 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

Semantic face image manipulation has received increasing attention in recent years. StyleGAN-based approaches to face morphing are among the leading techniques; however, they often suffer from noticeable blurring and artifacts as a result…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Na Zhang , Xudong Liu , Xin Li , Guo-Jun Qi