Spoofing identities using photographs is one of the most common techniques to attack 2-D face recognition systems. There seems to exist no comparative studies of different techniques using the same protocols and data. The motivation behind this competition is to compare the performance of different state-of-the-art algorithms on the same database using a unique evaluation method. Six different teams from universities around the world have participated in the contest. Use of one or multiple techniques from motion, texture analysis and liveness detection appears to be the common trend in this competition. Most of the algorithms are able to clearly separate spoof attempts from real accesses. The results suggest the investigation of more complex attacks.

Identity spoofing is a contender for high-security face recognition applications. With the advent of social media and globalized search, our face images and videos are wide-spread on the internet and can be potentially used to attack biometric systems without previous user consent. Yet, research to counter these threats is just on its infancy -we lack public standard databases, protocols to measure spoofing vulnerability and baseline methods to detect these attacks. The contributions of this work to the area are three-fold: firstly we introduce a publicly available PHOTO-ATTACK database with associated protocols to measure the effectiveness of counter-measures. Based on the data available, we conduct a study on current state-of-the-art spoofing detection algorithms based on motion analysis, showing they fail under the light of these new dataset. By last, we propose a new technique of countermeasure solely based on foreground/background motion correlation using Optical Flow that outperforms all other algorithms achieving nearly perfect scoring with an equal-error rate of 1.52% on the available test data. The source code leading to the reported results is made available for the replicability of findings in this article.