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Are GAN-based Morphs Threatening Face Recognition?

Sébastien Marcel, Eklavya Sarkar, Laurent Colbois

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 or access control ...

IEEE2022

Building a path towards responsible use of Biometrics

Justinas Sukaitis

Like many other enterprises, humanitarian organizations are investing in their digital transformation. In this sector, an important effort is put into biometric solutions. The ICRC has been exploring new ways of how they could integrate biometrics into the ...

2021

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

Recent Advances in Face Presentation Attack Detection

Sébastien Marcel, André Anjos, Amir Mohammadi

The undeniable convenience of face-recognition (FR) based biometrics has made it an attractive tool for access control in various applications, from immigration-control to remote banking. Widespread adopti on of face biometrics, however, depends on the how ...

Springer2019

Presentation attack detection in voice biometrics

Sébastien Marcel

Recent years have shown an increase in both the accuracy of biometric systems and their practical use. The application of biometrics is becoming widespread with fingerprint sensors in smartphones, automatic face recognition in social networks and video-bas ...

The Institution of Engineering and Technology2017

Trustworthy Biometric Verification under Spoofing Attacks

Ivana Chingovska

The need for automation of the identity recognition process for a vast number of applications resulted in great advancement of biometric systems in the recent years. Yet, many studies indicate that these systems suffer from vulnerabilities to spoofing (pre ...

EPFL2016

Embedding Local Quality Measures in Minutiae-Based Biometric Recognition

Mohammad Hamed Izadi

Degradation in data quality is still a main source of errors in the modern biometric recognition systems. However, the data quality can be embedded in the recognition methods at global and local levels to build more accurate biometric systems. Local qualit ...

EPFL2016

Private Eyes: Secure Remote Biometric Authentication

Bryan Alexander Ford

We propose an efficient remote biometric authentication protocol that gives strong protection to the user’s biometric data in case of two common kinds of security breaches: (1) loss or theft of the user’s token (smart card, handheld device, etc.), giving t ...

SciTePress2015

Biometrics systems under spoofing attack: an evaluation methodology and lessons learned

Sébastien Marcel, Nicholas Evans

Biometrics already form a significant component of current and emerging identification technologies. Biometrics systems aim to determine or verify the identity of an individual from their behavioral and/or biological characteristics. Despite significant pr ...

2015