A New Hybrid CNN-LSTM Model with Non-SoftMax Functions for Face Spoof Detection

Abstract Recently, the emerging applications such as banking, mobile payments, face recognition technology are gradually booming and also increases the users count around the world. The extensive deployment of facial recognition systems has drawn close attention to the dependability of facial biometrics in the fight against spoof attacks, in which a picture, video or 3D mask of a real user's face may be used to access facilities or services illegitimately. While a number of anti-spoofing or liveness detection approaches (which identify whether a face is live or spoof when captured) were suggested, the problem is still unresolved because of the difficulty in discovering discriminatory and computer-cost characteristics and techniques for spoof assaults. Existing methods also utilise a full picture or video to determine luminosity. Often though, some facial areas (video frames) are redundant or relate to the confusion of the picture (video). In this paper, we propose a new hybrid deep learning technique called Hybrid Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based architecture with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) units to study the impact in classification. In this technique is applied a non-softmax function for making effective decision on classification. The hybrid approach is implemented followed by a comparative analysis with existing conventional and hybrid techniques used for spoof detection. The proposed model is proved as better than the existing deep learning techniques and other hybrid models in terms of precision, recall, f-measure and accuracy.