Optimal-Landmark-Guided Image Blending for Face Morphing Attacks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16722v1
• Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 03:45:06 GMT
• Title: Optimal-Landmark-Guided Image Blending for Face Morphing Attacks
• Authors: Qiaoyun He, Zongyong Deng, Zuyuan He, Qijun Zhao
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel approach for conducting face morphing attacks, which utilizes optimal-landmark-guided image blending. Our proposed method overcomes the limitations of previous approaches by optimizing the morphing landmarks and using Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) to combine landmark and appearance features.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we propose a novel approach for conducting face morphing attacks, which utilizes optimal-landmark-guided image blending. Current face morphing attacks can be categorized into landmark-based and generation-based approaches. Landmark-based methods use geometric transformations to warp facial regions according to averaged landmarks but often produce morphed images with poor visual quality. Generation-based methods, which employ generation models to blend multiple face images, can achieve better visual quality but are often unsuccessful in generating morphed images that can effectively evade state-of-the-art face recognition systems~(FRSs). Our proposed method overcomes the limitations of previous approaches by optimizing the morphing landmarks and using Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) to combine landmark and appearance features. We model facial landmarks as nodes in a bipartite graph that is fully connected and utilize GCNs to simulate their spatial and structural relationships. The aim is to capture variations in facial shape and enable accurate manipulation of facial appearance features during the warping process, resulting in morphed facial images that are highly realistic and visually faithful. Experiments on two public datasets prove that our method inherits the advantages of previous landmark-based and generation-based methods and generates morphed images with higher quality, posing a more significant threat to state-of-the-art FRSs.

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