Detecting Morphing Attacks through Face Geometry Features

Autor: Cecilia Pasquini, Stephanie Autherith
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Computer science
face morphing
0211 other engineering and technologies
ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION
02 engineering and technology
lcsh:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics
Article
lcsh:QA75.5-76.95
Image (mathematics)
Discriminative model
forensics detection
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering

Radiology
Nuclear Medicine and imaging

Sensitivity (control systems)
lcsh:Photography
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
021110 strategic
defence & security studies

Landmark
face landmarks
business.industry
Process (computing)
Pattern recognition
lcsh:TR1-1050
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Morphing
Feature (computer vision)
Identity (object-oriented programming)
lcsh:R858-859.7
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial intelligence
automatic border control
lcsh:Electronic computers. Computer science
business
Zdroj: Journal of Imaging, Vol 6, Iss 115, p 115 (2020)
Journal of Imaging
Volume 6
Issue 11
Popis: Face-morphing operations allow for the generation of digital faces that simultaneously carry the characteristics of two different subjects. It has been demonstrated that morphed faces strongly challenge face-verification systems, as they typically match two different identities. This poses serious security issues in machine-assisted border control applications and calls for techniques to automatically detect whether morphing operations have been previously applied on passport photos. While many proposed approaches analyze the suspect passport photo only, our work operates in a differential scenario, i.e., when the passport photo is analyzed in conjunction with the probe image of the subject acquired at border control to verify that they correspond to the same identity. To this purpose, in this study, we analyze the locations of biologically meaningful facial landmarks identified in the two images, with the goal of capturing inconsistencies in the facial geometry introduced by the morphing process. We report the results of extensive experiments performed on images of various sources and under different experimental settings showing that landmark locations detected through automated algorithms contain discriminative information for identifying pairs with morphed passport photos. Sensitivity of supervised classifiers to different compositions on the training and testing sets are also explored, together with the performance of different derived feature transformations.
Databáze: OpenAIRE