FaceLivePlus: A Unified System for Face Liveness Detection and Face Verification

Ying Zhang, Lilei Zheng, Vrizlynn L.L. Thing, Roger Zimmermann, Bin Guo, Zhiwen Yu

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Abstract

Face verification is a trending way to verify someone's identity in broad applications. But such systems are vulnerable to face spoofing attacks via, for example, a fraudulent copy of a photo, making it necessary to include face liveness detection as an additional safeguard. Among most existing studies, the face liveness detection is realized in a separate machine learning model in addition to the model for face verification. Such a two-model configuration may face challenges when deployed onto platforms with limited computation power and storage (e.g. mobile phone, IoT devices), especially considering each model may have millions of parameters. Inspired by the fact that humans can verify a person's identity and liveness at a single glance from a face, we develop a novel system, named FaceLivePlus, to learn a single and universal face descriptor for the two tasks (face verification and liveness detection) so that the computational workload and storage space can be halved. To achieve this, we formulate the underlying relationship between the two tasks, and seamlessly embed this relationship in a distance ranking deep model. The model directly works on features rather than classification labels, which makes the system well generalized on unseen data. Extensive experiments show that our average half total error rate (HTER) has at least 15% and 8% improvement from the state-of-the-arts on two benchmark datasets. We anticipate this approach could become a new direction for face authentication.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICMR 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages144-152
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9798400701788
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Jun 2023
Event2023 ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, ICMR 2023 - Thessaloniki, Greece
Duration: 12 Jun 202315 Jun 2023

Publication series

NameICMR 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

Conference

Conference2023 ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, ICMR 2023
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityThessaloniki
Period12/06/2315/06/23

Keywords

  • Biometrics
  • Face authentication
  • Face liveness detection
  • Multimedia Forensics
  • Multimedia Security
  • Multimedia System

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