Face Liveness Detection : An Overview

Abstract

As the world becomes more and more digitized, the threat to security grows at an alarming rate. The mass usage of technology has garnered the attention and curiosity of people with foul intentions, whose aim is to exploit this use of technology to commit theft and other heinous crimes. One such technology used for security purposes is “Facial Recognition”. Face recognition is a popular biometric technique. Face recognition technology has advanced fast in recent years, and when compared to other ways, it is more direct, user-friendly, and convenient. Face recognition systems, on the other hand, are vulnerable to spoof assaults by non-real faces. To protect against spoofing, a secure system requires liveness detection. This study examines researchers attempts to address the problem of spoofing and liveness detection, including mapping the research overview from the literature survey into a suitable taxonomy, exploring the fundamental properties of the field, motivation for using liveness detection methods in face recognition, and problems that may limit the benefits.