3d mask face anti-spoofing with remote photoplethysmography

3D mask spoofing attack has been one of the main challenges in face recognition. Among existing methods, texture-based approaches show powerful abilities and achieve encouraging results on 3D mask face anti-spoofing. However, these approaches may not be robust enough in application scenarios and could fail to detect imposters with hyper-real masks. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to 3D mask face antispoofing from a new perspective, by analysing heartbeat signal through remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG). We develop a novel local rPPG correlation model to extract discriminative local heartbeat signal patterns so that an imposter can better be detected regardless of the material and quality of the mask. To further exploit the characteristic of rPPG distribution on real faces, we learn a confidence map through heartbeat signal strength to weight local rPPG correlation pattern for classification. Experiments on both public and self-collected datasets validate that the proposed method achieves promising results under intra and cross dataset scenario.