Combining Multiple one-class Classifiers for Anomaly based Face Spoofing Attack Detection

Abstract

One-class spoofing detection approaches have been an effective alternative to the two-class learners in the face presentation attack detection particularly in unseen attack scenarios. We propose an ensemble based anomaly detection approach applicable to one-class classifiers. A new score normalisation method is proposed to normalise the output of individual outlier detectors before fusion. To comply with the accuracy and diversity objectives for the component classifiers, three different strategies are utilised to build a pool of anomaly experts. To boost the performance, we also make use of the client-specific information both in the design of individual experts as well as in setting a distinct threshold for each client. We carry out extensive experiments on three face anti-spoofing datasets and show that the proposed ensemble approaches are comparable superior to the techniques based on the two-class formulation or class-independent settings. *