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PRO-Face C: Privacy-Preserving Recognition of Obfuscated Face via Feature Compensation

The advancement of face recognition technology has delivered substantial societal advantages. However, it has also raised global privacy concerns due to the ubiquitous collection and potential misuse of individuals' facial data. This presents a notable par ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Performing and Detecting Backdoor Attacks on Face Recognition Algorithms

Alexander Carl Unnervik

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

Towards Visual Saliency Explanations of Face Verification

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

In the past years, deep convolutional neural networks have been pushing the frontier of face recognition (FR) techniques in both verification and identification scenarios. Despite the high accuracy, they are often criticized for lacking explainability. The ...

2024

Discriminative Deep Feature Visualization for Explainable Face Recognition

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

Despite the huge success of deep convolutional neural networks in face recognition (FR) tasks, current methods lack explainability for their predictions because of their ``black-box'' nature. In recent years, studies have been carried out to give an interp ...

2023

Recognizing distant faces

Lukas Vogelsang

As an 'early alerting' sense, one of the primary tasks for the human visual system is to recognize distant objects. In the specific context of facial identification, this ecologically important task has received surprisingly little attention. Most studies ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Explanation of Face Recognition via Saliency Maps

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

Despite the significant progress in recent years, deep face recognition is often treated as a "black box" and has been criticized for lacking explainability. It becomes increasingly important to understand the characteristics and decisions of deep face rec ...

2023

A Novel Framework for Assessment of Deep Face Recognition Systems in Realistic Conditions

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

Deep convolutional neural networks have shown remarkable results on face recognition (FR). Despite their significant progress, the performance of current face recognition techniques is often assessed in benchmarks under not always realistic conditions. The ...

2022

Are GAN-based Morphs Threatening Face Recognition?

Sébastien Marcel, Eklavya Sarkar

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

Face Reconstruction Fromdeep Facial Embeddings Using A Convolutional Neural Network

Sébastien Marcel, Hatef Otroshi Shahreza

State-of-the-art (SOTA) face recognition systems generally use deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to extract deep features, called embeddings, from face images. The face embeddings are stored in the system's database and are used for recognition of ...

IEEE2022

On the Recognition Performance of BioHashing on state-of-the-art Face Recognition models

Sébastien Marcel, Hatef Otroshi Shahreza

Face recognition has become a popular authentication tool in recent years. Modern state-of-the-art (SOTA) face recognition methods rely on deep neural networks, which extract discriminative features from face images. Although these methods have high recogn ...

IEEE2021

Model-based 3D Face Reconstruction

Christophe René Joseph Ecabert

The human face plays an essential role in social interactions as it brings information about someone's identity, state of mind, or mood. People are, by nature, very good at catching this non-spoken information. Therefore, scientists have been interested in ...

EPFL2021

Balancing of Coupled Piezoelectric NEMS Resonators

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Damien Maillard

Micro and Nano Electro Mechanical systems (M/NEMS) have a lot of potential to be used for sensing in different schemes and operation modes. We focus here on the use of coupled resonators for sensing and address the major limitation that these systems face, ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2021

Trustworthy Face Recognition: Improving Generalization of Deep Face Presentation Attack Detection

Amir Mohammadi

The extremely high recognition accuracy achieved by modern, convolutional neural network (CNN) based face recognition (FR) systems has contributed significantly to the adoption of such systems in a variety of applications, from mundane activities like unlo ...

EPFL2020

Learning One Class Representations for Face Presentation Attack Detection using Multi-channel Convolutional Neural Networks

Sébastien Marcel

Face recognition has evolved as a widely used biometric modality. However, its vulnerability against presentation attacks poses a significant security threat. Though presentation attack detection (PAD) methods try to address this issue, they often fail in ...

IEEE2020

CNN Patch Pooling for Detecting 3D Mask Presentation Attacks in NIR

Sébastien Marcel

Presentation attacks using 3D masks pose a serious threat to face recognition systems. Automatic detection of these attacks is challenging due to hyper-realistic nature of masks. In this work, we consider presentations acquired in near infrared (NIR) imagi ...

IEEE2020

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

Multi-Modal Recurrent Attention Networks for Facial Expression Recognition

Seungryong Kim

Recent deep neural networks based methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various facial expression recognition tasks. Despite such progress, previous researches for facial expression recognition have mainly focused on analyzing color recordi ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Learning How To Recognize Faces In Heterogeneous Environments

Tiago De Freitas Pereira

Face recognition is a mature field in biometrics in which several systems have been proposed over the last three decades. Such systems are extremely reliable under controlled recording conditions and it has been deployed in the field in critical tasks, suc ...

EPFL2019

A Comprehensive Experimental and Reproducible Study on Selfie Biometrics in Multistream and Heterogeneous Settings

Sébastien Marcel, Tiago De Freitas Pereira

This contribution presents a new database to address current challenges in face recognition. It contains face video sequences of 75 individuals acquired either through a laptop webcam or when mimicking the front-facing camera of a smartphone. Sequences hav ...

2019

Multispectral Deep Embeddings As a Countermeasure To Custom Silicone Mask Presentation Attacks

Sébastien Marcel

This work focuses on detecting presentation attacks (PA) mounted using custom silicone masks. Face recognition (FR) systems have been shown to be highly vulnerable to PAs based on such masks [1, 2]. Here we explore the use of multispectral data (color imag ...

2019