Synthetic Realities and Data in Biometric Analysis and Security


Exploring Correlated Facial Attributes in Text-to-Image Models: Unintended Consequences in Synthetic Face Generation
Sander De Coninck,
Sam Leroux,
Pieter Simoens
[pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{De_Coninck_2025_WACV, author = {De Coninck, Sander and Leroux, Sam and Simoens, Pieter}, title = {Exploring Correlated Facial Attributes in Text-to-Image Models: Unintended Consequences in Synthetic Face Generation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {February}, year = {2025}, pages = {1392-1401} }

Unified Face Matching and Physical-Digital Spoofing Attack Detection
Arun Kunwar,
Ajita Rattani
[pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Kunwar_2025_WACV, author = {Kunwar, Arun and Rattani, Ajita}, title = {Unified Face Matching and Physical-Digital Spoofing Attack Detection}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {February}, year = {2025}, pages = {1429-1439} }

Digi2Real: Bridging the Realism Gap in Synthetic Data Face Recognition via Foundation Models
Anjith George,
Sebastien Marcel
[pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{George_2025_WACV, author = {George, Anjith and Marcel, Sebastien}, title = {Digi2Real: Bridging the Realism Gap in Synthetic Data Face Recognition via Foundation Models}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {February}, year = {2025}, pages = {1469-1478} }

SIGN-GAIL: Rewarding Online Signature Generation for Digital Imitation
Anurag Pandey,
Arnav Bhavsar Vinayak,
Aditya Nigam,
Divya Acharya,
Balaji Rao K,
Basu Verma
[pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Pandey_2025_WACV, author = {Pandey, Anurag and Vinayak, Arnav Bhavsar and Nigam, Aditya and Acharya, Divya and K, Balaji Rao and Verma, Basu}, title = {SIGN-GAIL: Rewarding Online Signature Generation for Digital Imitation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {February}, year = {2025}, pages = {1382-1391} }

Generating Realistic Forehead-Creases for User Verification via Conditioned Piecewise Polynomial Curves
Abhishek Tandon,
Geetanjali Sharma,
Gaurav Jaswal,
Aditya Nigam,
Raghavendra Ramachandra
[pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Tandon_2025_WACV, author = {Tandon, Abhishek and Sharma, Geetanjali and Jaswal, Gaurav and Nigam, Aditya and Ramachandra, Raghavendra}, title = {Generating Realistic Forehead-Creases for User Verification via Conditioned Piecewise Polynomial Curves}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {February}, year = {2025}, pages = {1412-1420} }

On the generalisation capability of local surface frames in detecting diffusion-based facial images
Andrea Ciamarra,
Roberto Caldelli,
Alberto Del Bimbo
[pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Ciamarra_2025_WACV, author = {Ciamarra, Andrea and Caldelli, Roberto and Del Bimbo, Alberto}, title = {On the generalisation capability of local surface frames in detecting diffusion-based facial images}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {February}, year = {2025}, pages = {1402-1411} }

Parallel Prints: Generating Realistic Cancelable Fingerprint Templates
Rishabh shukla,
Harkeerat Kaur,
Isao Echizen
[pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{shukla_2025_WACV, author = {shukla, Rishabh and Kaur, Harkeerat and Echizen, Isao}, title = {Parallel Prints: Generating Realistic Cancelable Fingerprint Templates}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {February}, year = {2025}, pages = {1449-1458} }

TextureCrop: Enhancing Synthetic Image Detection through Texture-based Cropping
Despina Konstantinidou,
Christos Koutlis,
Symeon Papadopoulos
[pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Konstantinidou_2025_WACV, author = {Konstantinidou, Despina and Koutlis, Christos and Papadopoulos, Symeon}, title = {TextureCrop: Enhancing Synthetic Image Detection through Texture-based Cropping}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {February}, year = {2025}, pages = {1459-1468} }

Latent Diffusion Shield - Mitigating Malicious Use of Diffusion Models through Latent Space Adversarial Perturbations
Huy Phan,
Boshi Huang,
Ayush Jaiswal,
Ekraam Sabir,
Prateek Singhal,
Bo Yuan
[pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Phan_2025_WACV, author = {Phan, Huy and Huang, Boshi and Jaiswal, Ayush and Sabir, Ekraam and Singhal, Prateek and Yuan, Bo}, title = {Latent Diffusion Shield - Mitigating Malicious Use of Diffusion Models through Latent Space Adversarial Perturbations}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {February}, year = {2025}, pages = {1440-1448} }

Face-swapping based Data Augmentation for ID Document and Selfie Face Verification
Elmokhtar Mohamed Moussa,
Ioannis Sarridis,
Emmanouil Krasanakis,
Nathan Ramoly,
Symeon Papadopoulos,
Ahmad-Montaser Awal,
Lara Younes
[pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Moussa_2025_WACV, author = {Moussa, Elmokhtar Mohamed and Sarridis, Ioannis and Krasanakis, Emmanouil and Ramoly, Nathan and Papadopoulos, Symeon and Awal, Ahmad-Montaser and Younes, Lara}, title = {Face-swapping based Data Augmentation for ID Document and Selfie Face Verification}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {February}, year = {2025}, pages = {1421-1428} }