SFDemorpher: Generalizable Face Demorphing for Operational Morphing Attack Detection

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Main Authors: Ismayilov, Raul, Spreeuwers, Luuk
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Published: 2026
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author Ismayilov, Raul
Spreeuwers, Luuk
author_facet Ismayilov, Raul
Spreeuwers, Luuk
contents Face morphing attacks compromise biometric security by creating document images that verify against multiple identities, posing significant risks from document issuance to border control. Differential Morphing Attack Detection (D-MAD) offers an effective countermeasure, particularly when employing face demorphing to disentangle identities blended in the morph. However, existing methods lack operational generalizability due to limited training data and the assumption that all document inputs are morphs. This paper presents SFDemorpher, a framework designed for the operational deployment of face demorphing for D-MAD that performs identity disentanglement within joint StyleGAN latent and high-dimensional feature spaces. We introduce a dual-pass training strategy handling both morphed and bona fide documents, leveraging a hybrid corpus with predominantly synthetic identities to enhance robustness against unseen distributions. Extensive evaluation confirms state-of-the-art generalizability across unseen identities, diverse capture conditions, and 13 morphing techniques, spanning both border verification and the challenging document enrollment stage. Our framework achieves superior D-MAD performance by widening the margin between the score distributions of bona fide and morphed samples while providing high-fidelity visual reconstructions facilitating explainability.
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spellingShingle SFDemorpher: Generalizable Face Demorphing for Operational Morphing Attack Detection
Ismayilov, Raul
Spreeuwers, Luuk
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Face morphing attacks compromise biometric security by creating document images that verify against multiple identities, posing significant risks from document issuance to border control. Differential Morphing Attack Detection (D-MAD) offers an effective countermeasure, particularly when employing face demorphing to disentangle identities blended in the morph. However, existing methods lack operational generalizability due to limited training data and the assumption that all document inputs are morphs. This paper presents SFDemorpher, a framework designed for the operational deployment of face demorphing for D-MAD that performs identity disentanglement within joint StyleGAN latent and high-dimensional feature spaces. We introduce a dual-pass training strategy handling both morphed and bona fide documents, leveraging a hybrid corpus with predominantly synthetic identities to enhance robustness against unseen distributions. Extensive evaluation confirms state-of-the-art generalizability across unseen identities, diverse capture conditions, and 13 morphing techniques, spanning both border verification and the challenging document enrollment stage. Our framework achieves superior D-MAD performance by widening the margin between the score distributions of bona fide and morphed samples while providing high-fidelity visual reconstructions facilitating explainability.
title SFDemorpher: Generalizable Face Demorphing for Operational Morphing Attack Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28322