DifFoundMAD: Foundation Models meet Differential Morphing Attack Detection
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| author | Gonzalez-Soler, Lazaro J. Dörsch, André Rathgeb, Christian Busch, Christoph |
| author_facet | Gonzalez-Soler, Lazaro J. Dörsch, André Rathgeb, Christian Busch, Christoph |
| contents | In this work, we introduce DifFoundMAD, a parameter-efficient D-MAD framework that exploits the generalisation capabilities of vision foundation models (FM) to capture discrepancies between suspected morphs and live capture images. In contrast to conventional D-MAD systems that rely on face recognition embeddings or handcrafted feature differences, DifFoundMAD follows the standard differential paradigm while replacing the underlying representation space with embeddings extracted from FMs. By combining lightweight finetuning with class-balanced optimisation, the proposed method updates only a small subset of parameters while preserving the rich representational priors of the underlying FMs. Extensive cross-database evaluations on standard D-MAD benchmarks demonstrate that DifFoundMAD achieves consistent improvements over state-of-the-art systems, particularly at the strict security levels required in operational deployments such as border control: The error rates reported in the current state-of-the-art were reduced from 6.16% to 2.17% for high-security levels using DifFoundMAD. |
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| spellingShingle | DifFoundMAD: Foundation Models meet Differential Morphing Attack Detection Gonzalez-Soler, Lazaro J. Dörsch, André Rathgeb, Christian Busch, Christoph Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition In this work, we introduce DifFoundMAD, a parameter-efficient D-MAD framework that exploits the generalisation capabilities of vision foundation models (FM) to capture discrepancies between suspected morphs and live capture images. In contrast to conventional D-MAD systems that rely on face recognition embeddings or handcrafted feature differences, DifFoundMAD follows the standard differential paradigm while replacing the underlying representation space with embeddings extracted from FMs. By combining lightweight finetuning with class-balanced optimisation, the proposed method updates only a small subset of parameters while preserving the rich representational priors of the underlying FMs. Extensive cross-database evaluations on standard D-MAD benchmarks demonstrate that DifFoundMAD achieves consistent improvements over state-of-the-art systems, particularly at the strict security levels required in operational deployments such as border control: The error rates reported in the current state-of-the-art were reduced from 6.16% to 2.17% for high-security levels using DifFoundMAD. |
| title | DifFoundMAD: Foundation Models meet Differential Morphing Attack Detection |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17961 |