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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

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

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

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

A facial morph is a synthetically created image of a face that looks similar to two different individuals and can even trick biometric facial recognition systems into recognizing both individuals. This attack is known as face morphing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Clemens Seibold , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

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

Morphing attacks are 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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Eklavya Sarkar , Pavel Korshunov , Laurent Colbois , Sébastien Marcel

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

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

Face morphing attacks are widely recognized as one of the most challenging threats to face recognition systems used in electronic identity documents. These attacks exploit a critical vulnerability in passport enrollment procedures adopted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Nicolò Di Domenico , Annalisa Franco , Matteo Ferrara , Davide Maltoni

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

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

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

Face Recognition (FR) systems have been shown to be vulnerable to morphing attacks. We examine exactly how challenging morphs can become. By showing a worst-case construction in the embedding space of an FR system and using a mapping from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Una M. Kelly , Raymond Veldhuis , Luuk Spreeuwers

The task of detecting morphed face images has become highly relevant in recent years to ensure the security of automatic verification systems based on facial images, e.g. automated border control gates. Detection methods based on Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Clemens Seibold , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

This work investigates the well-known problem of morphing attacks, which has drawn considerable attention in the biometrics community. Morphed images have exposed face recognition systems' susceptibility to false acceptance, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Poorya Aghdaie , Baaria Chaudhary , Sobhan Soleymani , Jeremy Dawson , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

A morph is created by combining two (or more) face images from two (or more) identities to create a composite image that is highly similar to all constituent identities, allowing the forged morph to be biometrically associated with more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Nitish Shukla , Arun Ross

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

Face Recognition System (FRS) are shown to be vulnerable to morphed images of newborns. Detecting morphing attacks stemming from face images of newborn is important to avoid unwanted consequences, both for security and society. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Jag Mohan Singh Sushma Venkatesh Raghavendra Ramachandra

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