Face Anti-Spoofing via Interaction Learning with Face Image Quality Alignment

Yongluo Liu, Zun Li, Shuyi Li, Zhuming Wang, Lifang Wu

Abstract: Face Anti-Spoofing is critical to secure face recognition systems from presentation attacks. Existing methods often suffer from performance degradation due to image quality issues, such as blurring, overexposure, or varied background, which cause distribution deviations of face images in the quality space, and hinder the learning of effective liveness features. In this paper, we propose a novel method that interactively co-reinforces the liveness and Face Quality representations for Face Anti-Spoofing (FQ-FAS). Specifically, to enhance the discrimination of face quality representation, FQ-FAS first designs a face quality learning module that naturally mitigates the interference from background. Subsequently, a quality-spoofing feature interaction module is devised to co-reinforce both liveness and face quality representations. Meanwhile, we propose a quality aware triplet loss to align the distribution of face images from two aspects: one is to pull the homogeneous face images with different quality together, while the other is to push the inhomogeneous samples with similar quality away in the feature space. In this way, FQ-FAS can learn reliable and discriminative representations for face anti-spoofing. Extensive intra-dataset and cross-dataset experiments clearly demonstrate that our method obtains better performance than previous state-of-the-art methods.