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On the Robustness of Face Recognition Algorithms Against Attacks and Bias
Face recognition algorithms have demonstrated very high recognition
performance, suggesting suitability for real world applications. Despite the
enhanced accuracies, robustness of these algorithms against attacks and bias
has been challenged. This paper summarizes different ways in which the
robustness of a face recognition algorithm is challenged, which can severely
affect its intended working. Different types of attacks such as physical
presentation attacks, disguise/makeup, digital adversarial attacks, and
morphing/tampering using GANs have been discussed. We also present a discussion
on the effect of bias on face recognition models and showcase that factors such
as age and gender variations affect the performance of modern algorithms. The
paper also presents the potential reasons for these challenges and some of the
future research directions for increasing the robustness of face recognition
models.Comment: Accepted in Senior Member Track, AAAI202
Privacy Risks of Securing Machine Learning Models against Adversarial Examples
The arms race between attacks and defenses for machine learning models has
come to a forefront in recent years, in both the security community and the
privacy community. However, one big limitation of previous research is that the
security domain and the privacy domain have typically been considered
separately. It is thus unclear whether the defense methods in one domain will
have any unexpected impact on the other domain.
In this paper, we take a step towards resolving this limitation by combining
the two domains. In particular, we measure the success of membership inference
attacks against six state-of-the-art defense methods that mitigate the risk of
adversarial examples (i.e., evasion attacks). Membership inference attacks
determine whether or not an individual data record has been part of a model's
training set. The accuracy of such attacks reflects the information leakage of
training algorithms about individual members of the training set. Adversarial
defense methods against adversarial examples influence the model's decision
boundaries such that model predictions remain unchanged for a small area around
each input. However, this objective is optimized on training data. Thus,
individual data records in the training set have a significant influence on
robust models. This makes the models more vulnerable to inference attacks.
To perform the membership inference attacks, we leverage the existing
inference methods that exploit model predictions. We also propose two new
inference methods that exploit structural properties of robust models on
adversarially perturbed data. Our experimental evaluation demonstrates that
compared with the natural training (undefended) approach, adversarial defense
methods can indeed increase the target model's risk against membership
inference attacks.Comment: ACM CCS 2019, code is available at
https://github.com/inspire-group/privacy-vs-robustnes
Biometric presentation attack detection: beyond the visible spectrum
The increased need for unattended authentication in
multiple scenarios has motivated a wide deployment of biometric
systems in the last few years. This has in turn led to the
disclosure of security concerns specifically related to biometric
systems. Among them, presentation attacks (PAs, i.e., attempts
to log into the system with a fake biometric characteristic or
presentation attack instrument) pose a severe threat to the
security of the system: any person could eventually fabricate
or order a gummy finger or face mask to impersonate someone
else. In this context, we present a novel fingerprint presentation
attack detection (PAD) scheme based on i) a new capture device
able to acquire images within the short wave infrared (SWIR)
spectrum, and i i) an in-depth analysis of several state-of-theart
techniques based on both handcrafted and deep learning
features. The approach is evaluated on a database comprising
over 4700 samples, stemming from 562 different subjects and
35 different presentation attack instrument (PAI) species. The
results show the soundness of the proposed approach with a
detection equal error rate (D-EER) as low as 1.35% even in a
realistic scenario where five different PAI species are considered
only for testing purposes (i.e., unknown attacks
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