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Are GAN-based Morphs Threatening Face Recognition?

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The field of biometrics, and especially face recognition, has seen a wide-spread adoption the last few years, from access control on personal devices such as phones and laptops, to automated border controls such as in airports. The stakes are increasingly ...

EPFL2024

When Your AI Becomes a Target: AI Security Incidents and Best Practices

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Kathrin Grosse

In contrast to vast academic efforts to study AI security, few real-world reports of AI security incidents exist. Released incidents prevent a thorough investigation of the attackers' motives, as crucial information about the company and AI application is ...

AAAI Press2024

Indexing Protected Deep Face Templates by Frequent Binary Patterns

Sébastien Marcel, Hatef Otroshi Shahreza

In this work, we present a simple biometric indexing scheme which is binning and retrieving cancelable deep face templates based on frequent binary patterns. The simplicity of the proposed approach makes it applicable to unprotected as well as protected, i ...

IEEE2022

An anomaly detection approach for backdoored neural networks: face recognition as a case study

Sébastien Marcel, Alexander Carl Unnervik

Backdoor attacks allow an attacker to embed functionality jeopardizing proper behavior of any algorithm, machine learning or not. This hidden functionality can remain inactive for normal use of the algorithm until activated by the attacker. Given how steal ...

IEEE2022

Homomorphic Encryption (HE) has become a wellknown tool for privacy-preserving recognition in biometric systems. Despite some important advantages of HE (such as preservation of recognition accuracy), there are two main drawbacks in the application of HE t ...

IEEE2022

IMPROVING CROSS-DATASET PERFORMANCE OF FACE PRESENTATION ATTACK DETECTION SYSTEMS USING FACE RECOGNITION DATASETS

Sébastien Marcel, Amir Mohammadi

Presentation attack detection (PAD) is now considered critically important for any face-recognition (FR) based access-control system. Current deep-learning based PAD systems show excellent performance when they are tested in intra-dataset scenarios. Under ...

IEEE2020

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We design a consecution of protocols which allows organizations to have secure strong access control of their users to their desktop machines based on biometry. It provides both strong secure authentication and privacy. Moreover, our mechanism allows the s ...

Springer, Cham2020

Generating Master Faces for Use in PerformingWolf Attacks on Face Recognition Systems

Sébastien Marcel

Due to its convenience, biometric authentication, especial face authentication, has become increasingly mainstream and thus is now a prime target for attackers. Presentation attacks and face morphing are typical types of attack. Previous research has shown ...

IEEE2020

Vulnerability Analysis of Face Morphing Attacks from Landmarks and Generative Adversarial Networks

Sébastien Marcel, Eklavya Sarkar, Laurent Colbois

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 access control. ...

Idiap2020

Smartphone Multi-modal Biometric Authentication: Database and Evaluation

Sébastien Marcel, Amir Mohammadi

Biometric-based verification is widely employed on the smartphones for various applications, including financial transactions. In this work, we present a new multimodal biometric dataset (face, voice, and periocular) acquired using a smartphone. The new da ...

Idiap2020