arXiv Machine Learning

Intentional Electromagnetic Interference Attacks on Facial Recognition

arXiv:2607. 15512v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Attacks on general computer vision algorithms are often relegated to the digital domain, with the optimization performed purely in the digital world and then translated to physical mediums for implementation.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

Selfie-Capture Dynamics as an Auxiliary Signal Against Deepfakes and Injection Attacks for Mobile Identity Verification

The paper investigates whether passive motion traces recorded during selfie capture can serve as an auxiliary signal for detecting spoofing and verifying users in mobile remote identity verification systems. It introduces the CanSelfie dataset, comprising 375 multi‑sensor sequences from 30 participants, and evaluates seven time‑series classifiers and eight anomaly detectors across various sensor configurations. Results show that accelerometer‑only classifiers achieve very low false rejection rates, while certain models achieve low false acceptance rates and high verification accuracy, indicating that selfie‑capture motion is a promising low‑friction evidence channel.

By Erkka Rantahalvari, Olli Silv\'en, Zinelabidine Boulkenafet, Constantino \'Alvarez Casado
arXiv Computer Vision
1d ago

A Valid Watermark Is Not a Valid Identity: Spatial-Spectral Adversarial Face Evasion with Watermark Preservation

arXiv:2610.20278v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Facial image watermarking can support traceability and certification in biometric pipelines, but provenance or manipulation detection alone does not gu...

By Jefferson David Rodriguez Chivata, Davide Ghiani, Simone Maurizio La Cava, Marco Micheletto, Giulia Orr\`u, Gian Luca Marcialis
arXiv AI
Aug 11

A Combined Feature-Based Framework for Disguise and Spoofing Detection in Face Recognition Systems

arXiv:2608. 08521v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Face recognition systems face two distinct, commonly-separated failure modes: spoofing, where an impostor presents a photograph or video of an authorized user, and disguise, where a legitimate user is rejected because their appearance differs from their enrolled template due to accessories, facial hair, illumination, or pose.

By Sangiya Pararajasingham
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

FIDA: Feature Instability-Driven Attack on Self-Supervised Facial Representation

FIDA (Feature Instability-Driven Attack) is a new backdoor attack framework targeting self‑supervised facial representation models. It employs subtle semantic triggers and a novel Feature Instability Loss that trains the encoder to heighten sensitivity of triggered features along perturbation directions, thereby avoiding the rigid feature patterns seen in prior attacks. Experiments demonstrate that FIDA achieves high attack success while largely preserving benign utility, exposing a significant threat to real‑world facial analysis applications.

By Zhiyang Chen, Changchun Yin, Huiqin Yang, Liming Fang
arXiv AI
Sep 25

Band-Attention Modulation Network for Robust Face Forgery Detection

The paper introduces Band-Attention Modulation Network (BAM‑Net), a face forgery detection framework that learns fine‑grained, adaptive modulation of frequency bands in the Discrete Cosine Transform spectrogram. BAM‑Net dynamically reweights anti‑diagonal frequency bands to enhance forgery‑related spectral cues while suppressing irrelevant information, then fuses this modulated frequency data with spatial features using a lightweight backbone with distance‑decayed attention. Experiments on FaceForensics++, Celeb‑DF, and DFDC show that BAM‑Net achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance and strong generalization across datasets, compression levels, and manipulation types.

By Zhida Zhang, Wenkui Yang, Xinlei Ma, Qihang Fan, Jie Cao