Disentangling Facial Pose and Appearance Information for Face Anti-spoofing
Ajian Liu, Jun Wan, Ning Jiang, Hongbin Wang, Yanyan Liang
Abstract
Face Anti-spoofing aims to determine whether the captured face from a face recognition system is real or fake. However, the facial pose and local significant spoofing traces (i.e., the boundary and reflection spot in presentation attack instruments) seriously affects the performance and stability of the current algorithms. Due to they regard the face image as an indivisible unit, and process it holistically, rarely consider excluding these liveness-irrelated factors. Unlike it, we design a Pose-Independent Face Anti-Spoofing (PIFAS) framework to disentangle face into an appearance information and a pose code to capture liveness and liveness-irrelated features, respectively. Specifically, the PIFAS consists of an Unsupervised Pose Switching (UPS) module and a Mutual Information Averaged Defense (MIAD) module, which are used to control the facial pose and suppress the local significant attack traces by averaging the local and global knowledge. Extensive experimental evaluations on multiple face anti-spoofing datasets verify that the proposed method can improve the generalization and stabilize the performance of each testing video through alleviating the interference from liveness-irrelated factors.