Face Presentation Attack Detection Based on a Statistical Model of Image Noise

The vulnerability of most existing face recognition and authentication systems against face presentation attacks (a.k.a. face spoofing attacks) has been mentioned and studied in many works. This paper introduces a novel parametric approach for face PAD using a statistical model of image noise. In fa...

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Main Authors: Hoai Phuong Nguyen, Anges Delahaies, Florent Retraint, Frederic Morain-Nicolier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8920060/
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Summary:The vulnerability of most existing face recognition and authentication systems against face presentation attacks (a.k.a. face spoofing attacks) has been mentioned and studied in many works. This paper introduces a novel parametric approach for face PAD using a statistical model of image noise. In fact, facial images from a presentation attack contain specific textural information caused by the presentation process which makes them different from bona-fide images. The subtle difference between bona-fide and presentation attack images can be interpreted by the difference regarding noise statistics within the skin zone of the face. Our solution is casted in the hypothesis testing framework. A new database for face PAD containing face bona-fide images and images of high-quality presentation attacks has been also introduced. The performance of the proposed approach was proven in the mentioned database. Experimental results show that, in a controlled situation, our solution performs better than the other approaches in the literature.
ISSN:2169-3536