Summary of Greedy-dim: Greedy Algorithms For Unreasonably Effective Face Morphs, by Zander W. Blasingame et al.
Greedy-DiM: Greedy Algorithms for Unreasonably Effective Face Morphs
by Zander W. Blasingame, Chen Liu
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper tackles Morphing attacks on Face Recognition (FR) systems, which aim to create a single image containing biometric information from multiple identities. The proposed Diffusion Morphs (DiM) attack has achieved state-of-the-art performance, but existing research hasn’t leveraged the iterative nature of DiMs or treated them differently than Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) or Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs). This paper proposes a greedy strategy for optimizing the DiM model’s iterative sampling process using an identity-based heuristic function. The authors compare their algorithm to ten state-of-the-art morphing algorithms on the SYN-MAD 2022 competition dataset, finding it unreasonably effective in fooling all tested FR systems with a Mean Maximum Percentage of Morphed Present Images (MMPMR) of 100%, outperforming other methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about protecting Face Recognition systems from fake images. Some people are trying to trick these systems by creating fake images that look like many different faces. The authors propose a new way to do this, called Diffusion Morphs, which is very good at creating fake images. They compare their method to other ways of doing this and find that it works much better than the others. This could be important for keeping our personal information safe. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Face recognition
