Differential Newborn Face Morphing Attack Detection using Wavelet Scatter Network
This addresses security vulnerabilities in newborn face recognition systems, though it is an incremental improvement over prior methods.
The paper tackled the problem of detecting morphed face images of newborns in face recognition systems by proposing a differential morphing attack detection method using a wavelet scattering network, achieving over 10% higher detection accuracy compared to existing techniques.
Face Recognition System (FRS) are shown to be vulnerable to morphed images of newborns. Detecting morphing attacks stemming from face images of newborn is important to avoid unwanted consequences, both for security and society. In this paper, we present a new reference-based/Differential Morphing Attack Detection (MAD) method to detect newborn morphing images using Wavelet Scattering Network (WSN). We propose a two-layer WSN with 250 $\times$ 250 pixels and six rotations of wavelets per layer, resulting in 577 paths. The proposed approach is validated on a dataset of 852 bona fide images and 2460 morphing images constructed using face images of 42 unique newborns. The obtained results indicate a gain of over 10\% in detection accuracy over other existing D-MAD techniques.