An original face anti-spoofing approach using partial convolutional neural network

TLDR: This work extracts the deep partial features from the convolutional neural network (CNN) to distinguish the real and fake faces and uses the block principle component analysis (PCA) method to reduce the dimensionality of features that can avoid the over-fitting problem.

Abstract: Recently deep Convolutional Neural Networks have been successfully applied in many computer vision tasks and achieved promising results. So some works have introduced the deep learning into face anti-spoofing. However, most approaches just use the final fully-connected layer to distinguish the real and fake faces. Inspired by the idea of each convolutional kernel can be regarded as a part filter, we extract the deep partial features from the convolutional neural network (CNN) to distinguish the real and fake faces. In our prosed approach, the CNN is fine-tuned firstly on the face spoofing datasets. Then, the block principle component analysis (PCA) method is utilized to reduce the dimensionality of features that can avoid the over-fitting problem. Lastly, the support vector machine (SVM) is employed to distinguish the real the real and fake faces. The experiments evaluated on two public available databases, Replay-Attack and CASIA, show the proposed method can obtain satisfactory results compared to the state-of-the-art methods.