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Presentation Attack Detection Methods for Face Recognition Systems: A Comprehensive Survey

Ramachandra, Raghavendra, Busch, Christoph·2018·ACM Computing Surveys

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The vulnerability of face recognition systems to presentation attacks (also known as direct attacks or spoof attacks) has received a great deal of interest from the biometric community. The rapid evolution of face recognition systems into real-time applications has raised new concerns about their ability to resist presentation attacks, particularly in unattended application scenarios such as automated border control. The goal of a presentation attack is to subvert the face recognition system by presenting a facial biometric artifact. Popular face biometric artifacts include a printed photo, the electronic display of a facial photo, replaying video using an electronic display, and 3D face masks. These have demonstrated a high security risk for state-of-the-art face recognition systems. However, several presentation attack detection (PAD) algorithms (also known as countermeasures or antispoofing methods) have been proposed that can automatically detect and mitigate such targeted attacks. The goal of this survey is to present a systematic overview of the existing work on face presentation attack detection that has been carried out. This paper describes the various aspects of face presentation attacks, including different types of face artifacts, state-of-the-art PAD algorithms and an overview of the respective research labs working in this domain, vulnerability assessments and performance evaluation metrics, the outcomes of competitions, the availability of public databases for benchmarking new PAD algorithms in a reproducible manner, and finally a summary of the relevant international standardization in this field. Furthermore, we discuss the open challenges and future work that need to be addressed in this evolving field of biometrics.

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Authors
Ramachandra, R., & Busch, C.
Affiliations
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
Venue
ACM Computing Surveys
Published
2017-03-20
Volume
50
Issue
1
Pages
1-37
ISSN
  • 0360-0300 (ISSN-L)
  • 1557-7341
OpenAlex
W2602244503
Cited by
332
References
98
Citations by year
2026: 21 · 2025: 40 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 56 · 2020: 48 · 2019: 41 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 11
FWCI
28.02
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
ACM Computing Surveys (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • SECUNET Security Network AG, Germany
  • Research Council of Norway (IKTPLUSS 248030/O70)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Signal Processing › Biometric Identification and Security
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Face recognition and analysis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Face and Expression Recognition
Keywords
anti-spoofing, face recognition, spoofing attacks, replay attacks, automated border control, vulnerability assessment

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