Abstract
—With the rapid development in face recognition, most of the existing systems can perform very well in uncon-strained scenarios. However, it is still a very challenging task to detect face spoofing attacks, thus face anti-spoofing has become one of the most important research topics in the community. Though various anti-spoofing models have been proposed, the generalisation capability of these models usually degrades for unseen attacks in the presence of challenging appearance variations , e.g., background, illumination, diverse spoofing materials and low image quality. To address this issue, we propose to use a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) that transfers an input face image from the RGB domain to the depth domain. The generated depth clue enables biometric preservation against challenging appearance variations and diverse image qualities. To be more specific, the proposed method has two main stages. The first one is a GAN-based domain transfer module that converts an input image to its corresponding depth map. By design, a live face image should be transferred to a depth map whereas a spoofing face image should be transferred to a plain (black) image. The aim is to improve the discriminative capability of the proposed system. The second stage is a classification model that determines whether an input face image is live or spoofing. Benefit from the use of the GAN-based domain transfer module, the latent variables can effectively represent the depth information, complementarily enhancing the discrimination of the original RGB features. The experimental results obtained on several benchmarking datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, with superior performance over the state-of-the-art methods. The source code of the proposed method is publicly available at https://github.com/coderwangson/DFA. Index Terms—Face anti-spoofing, generative adversarial network , domain transfer.