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FeatherNets: Convolutional Neural Networks as Light as Feather for Face Anti-spoofing

22 Apr 2019arXiv:1904.09290archive 2025-07-28

Peng Zhang, Fuhao Zou, Zhiwen Wu, Nengli Dai, Skarpness Mark, Michael Fu, Juan Zhao, Kai Li

Face Anti-spoofing gains increased attentions recently in both academic and industrial fields. With the emergence of various CNN based solutions, the multi-modal(RGB, depth and IR) methods based CNN showed better performance than single modal classifiers. However, there is a need for improving the performance and reducing the complexity. Therefore, an extreme light network architecture(FeatherNet A/B) is proposed with a streaming module which fixes the weakness of Global Average Pooling and uses less parameters. Our single FeatherNet trained by depth image only, provides a higher baseline with 0.00168 ACER, 0.35M parameters and 83M FLOPS. Furthermore, a novel fusion procedure with ``ensemble + cascade'' structure is presented to satisfy the performance preferred use cases. Meanwhile, the MMFD dataset is collected to provide more attacks and diversity to gain better generalization. We use the fusion method in the Face Anti-spoofing Attack Detection Challenge@CVPR2019 and got the result of 0.0013(ACER), 0.999(TPR@FPR=10e-2), 0.998(TPR@FPR=10e-3) and 0.9814(TPR@FPR=10e-4).

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DiversityFace Anti-Spoofing

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Face Anti-Spoofing CelebA-Spoof-Enroll5 FeatherNet AUC 97.1 #5 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Face Anti-Spoofing SiW (Protocol 3) FeatherNet ACER 31.1 #6 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Face Anti-Spoofing SiW-Enroll5 FeatherNet AUC 98.9 #3 of 5 Archive leaderboard report

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