This paper addresses the problem of face presentation attack detection using
different image modalities. In particular, the usage of short wave infrared
(SWIR) imaging is considered. Face presentation attack detection is performed
using recent models based on Convolutional Neural Networks using only carefully
selected SWIR image differences as input. Conducted experiments show superior
performance over similar models acting on either color images or on a
combination of different modalities (visible, NIR, thermal and depth), as well
as on a SVM-based classifier acting on SWIR image differences. Experiments have
been carried on a new public and freely available database, containing a wide
variety of attacks. Video sequences have been recorded thanks to several
sensors resulting in 14 different streams in the visible, NIR, SWIR and thermal
spectra, as well as depth data. The best proposed approach is able to almost
perfectly detect all impersonation attacks while ensuring low bonafide
classification errors. On the other hand, obtained results show that
obfuscation attacks are more difficult to detect. We hope that the proposed
database will foster research on this challenging problem. Finally, all the
code and instructions to reproduce presented experiments is made available to
the research community