Face Anti-Spoofing via Disentangled Representation Learning

Ke-Yue Zhang, Taiping Yao, Jian Zhang, Ying Tai, Shouhong Ding, Jilin Li, Feiyue Huang, Haichuan Song, Lizhuang Ma ;

Face anti-spoofing is crucial to the security of face recognition systems. Previous approaches focus on developing discriminative models based on the features extracted from images, which may be still entangled between spoof patterns and real persons. In this paper, motivated by the disentangled representation learning, we propose a novel perspective of face anti-spoofing that disentangles the liveness features and content features from images, and the liveness features is further used for classification. We also put forward a CNN architecture with the process of disentanglement and combination of low-level and high-level supervision to improve the generalization capabilities. We evaluate our method on public benchmark datasets and extensive experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method against the state-of-the-art competitors. Finally, we further visualize some results to help understand the effect and advantage of disentanglement. "