Tiago de Freitas Pereira

Dr. Tiago de Freitas Pereira


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Academic Career Length

13Years (2014-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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7 January 2014 in EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
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TPTiago de Freitas Pereira
Tiago de Freitas Pereira
JKJukka Komulainen
Jukka Komulainen
AAAndré Anjos
André Anjos
JMJosé Mario De Martino
José Mario De Martino
AHAbdenour Hadid
Abdenour Hadid
SMSébastien Marcel
Sébastien Marcel
User authentication is an important step to protect information, and in this context, face biometrics is potentially advantageous. Face biometrics is natural, intuitive, easy to use, and less human-invasive. Unfortunately, recent work has revealed that face biometrics is vulnerable to spoofing attacks using cheap low-tech equipment. This paper introduces a novel and appealing approach to detect face spoofing using the spatiotemporal (dynamic texture) extensions of the highly popular local binary pattern operator. The key idea of the approach is to learn and detect the structure and the dynamics of the facial micro-textures that characterise real faces but not fake ones. We evaluated the approach with two publicly available databases (Replay-Attack Database and CASIA Face Anti-Spoofing Database). The results show that our approach performs better than state-of-the-art techniques following the provided evaluation protocols of each database.