Iris Liveness Detection Competition (LivDet-Iris) -- The 2020 Edition
This work provides a benchmark for researchers and industry in biometric security to evaluate and improve iris liveness detection against diverse attacks.
The paper presents results from the LivDet-Iris 2020 competition, which assessed iris presentation attack detection methods by introducing new attack types like screen displays and cadaver eyes, with the best entry achieving a weighted average APCER of 59.10% and BPCER of 0.46%.
Launched in 2013, LivDet-Iris is an international competition series open to academia and industry with the aim to assess and report advances in iris Presentation Attack Detection (PAD). This paper presents results from the fourth competition of the series: LivDet-Iris 2020. This year's competition introduced several novel elements: (a) incorporated new types of attacks (samples displayed on a screen, cadaver eyes and prosthetic eyes), (b) initiated LivDet-Iris as an on-going effort, with a testing protocol available now to everyone via the Biometrics Evaluation and Testing (BEAT)(https://www.idiap.ch/software/beat/) open-source platform to facilitate reproducibility and benchmarking of new algorithms continuously, and (c) performance comparison of the submitted entries with three baseline methods (offered by the University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University), and three open-source iris PAD methods available in the public domain. The best performing entry to the competition reported a weighted average APCER of 59.10\% and a BPCER of 0.46\% over all five attack types. This paper serves as the latest evaluation of iris PAD on a large spectrum of presentation attack instruments.