Spoofing and Anti-Spoofing with Wax Figure Faces
This work addresses the challenge of spoofing face recognition systems with realistic 3D attacks, which is an incremental advance in presentation attack detection for security applications.
The paper tackles the problem of 3D face presentation attacks by introducing a wax figure face database (WFFD) as a novel and super-realistic attack, and develops a multi-feature voting detection method that achieves an ACER of 11.73%, outperforming other methods and human detection.
We have witnessed rapid advances in both face presentation attack models and presentation attack detection (PAD) in recent years. Compared to widely studied 2D face presentation attacks (e.g. printed photos and video replays), 3D face presentation attacks are more challenging because face recognition systems (FRS) is more easily confused by the 3D characteristics of materials similar to real faces. Existing 3D face spoofing databases, mostly based on 3D facial masks, are restricted to small data size and suffer from poor authenticity due to the difficulty and expense of mask production. In this work, we introduce a wax figure face database (WFFD) as a novel and super-realistic 3D face presentation attack. This database contains 2300 image pairs (totally 4600) and 745 subjects including both real and wax figure faces with high diversity from online collections. On one hand, our experiments have demonstrated the spoofing potential of WFFD on three popular FRSs. On the other hand, we have developed a multi-feature voting scheme for wax figure face detection (anti-spoofing), which combines three discriminative features at the decision level. The proposed detection method was compared against several face PAD approaches and found to outperform other competing methods. Surprisingly, our fusion-based detection method achieves an Average Classification Error Rate (ACER) of 11.73\% on the WFFD database, which is even better than human-based detection.