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Improving Detection of Manipulated Passport Photos - Training Course for Border Control Inspectors to Detect Morphed Facial Passport Photos - Part I: Introduction, State-of-the-Art and Preparatory Tests and Experiments
  DOI :  10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2021.3.MOBMU-136  Published OnlineJune 2021
Abstract

In recent years, ID controllers have observed an increase in the use of fraudulently obtained ID documents [1]. This often involves deception during the application process to get a genuine document with a manipulated passport photo. One of the methods used by fraudsters is the presentation of a morphed facial image. Face morphing is used to assign multiple identities to a biometric passport photo. It is possible to modify the photo so that two or more persons, usually the known applicant and one or more unknown companions, can use the passport to pass through a border control [2]. In this way, persons prohibited from crossing a border can cross it unnoticed using a face morphing attack and thus acquire a different identity. The face morphing attack aims to weaken the application for an identity card and issue a genuine identity document with a morphed facial image. A survey among experts at the Security Printers Conference revealed that a relevant number of at least 1,000 passports with morphed facial images had been detected in the last five years in Germany alone [1]. Furthermore, there are indications of a high number of unreported cases. This high presumed number of unreported cases can also be explained by the lack of morphed photographs’ detection capabilities. Such identity cards would be recognized if the controllers could recognize the morphed facial images. Various studies have shown that the human eye has a minimal ability to recognize morphed faces as such [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]. This work consists of two parts. Both parts are based on the complete development of a training course for passport control officers to detect morphed facial images. Part one contains the conception and the first test trials of how the training course has to be structured to achieve the desired goals and thus improve the detection of morphed facial images for passport inspectors. The second part of this thesis will include the complete training course and the evaluation of its effectiveness.

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Franziska Schwarz, Klaus Schwarz, Reiner Creutzburg, "Improving Detection of Manipulated Passport Photos - Training Course for Border Control Inspectors to Detect Morphed Facial Passport Photos - Part I: Introduction, State-of-the-Art and Preparatory Tests and Experimentsin Proc. IS&T Int’l. Symp. on Electronic Imaging: Mobile Devices and Multimedia: Technologies, Algorithms & Applications,  2021,  pp 136-1 - 136-9,  https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2021.3.MOBMU-136

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