FACE LIVENESS DETECTION AND RECOGNITION USING SHEARLET BASED FEATURE DESCRIPTORS

Yuming Li*, Lai-Man Po, Xuyuan Xu, Litong Feng, Fang Yuan

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review

17 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Face recognition is a widely used biometric technology due to its convenience but it is vulnerable to spoofing attacks made by non-real faces such as a photograph or video of valid user. Face liveness detection is a core technology to make sure that the input face is a live person. However, this is still very challenging using conventional liveness detection approaches of texture analysis and motion detection. The aim of this paper is to develop a multifunctional feature descriptor and an efficient framework which can be used to deal with both face liveness detection and recognition. In this framework, new feature descriptors are defined using a multiscale directional transform (shearlet transform). Then, stacked autoencoders and softmax classifier are concatenated to detect face liveness and identify person. We evaluated this approach using CASIA Face Anti-Spoofing Database and the results show that our approach performs better than state-of-the-art techniques following the provided evaluation protocols of this database, and is possible to significantly enhance the security of face recognition biometric system.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - PROCEEDINGS
PublisherIEEE
Pages874-877
ISBN (Electronic)9781479999880
ISBN (Print)9781479999873
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2016
Event41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2016) - Shanghai International Convention Center, Shanghai, China
Duration: 20 Mar 201625 Mar 2016

Publication series

Name
ISSN (Electronic)2379-190X

Conference

Conference41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2016)
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period20/03/1625/03/16

Research Keywords

  • Anti-spoofing
  • Face recognition
  • Liveness detection
  • Shearlet transform
  • Softmax classification
  • Stacked autoencoders

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