IensNet: A novel and efficient approach for iris spoof detection via ensemble of deep models
摘要
Iris biometrics allow contactless authentication, which makes it widely deployed human recognition mechanisms since the couple of years. Susceptibility of iris identification systems remains a challenging task due to diversity in spoof or presentation attacks (PAs) that fails to assure consistency while adopting them in real life scenarios. Hence, iris PAs are the growing concerns that gained significant attention in recent past decade. To alleviate these attacks or recognize presentation attack instruments (PAIs), iris presentation attacks detection (IPAD) algorithms are designed to distinguish a real and fabricated iris trait. Aiming at the efficient iris spoof detection mechanism, in this research work we expound a novel ensemble learning-enabled model (IensNet) that learns three pre-trained and fined-tuned deep models (i.e. DenseNet161, ResNet and VGGNet) for better accuracy and generalized performance. The novel IensNet approach offers several merits (i.e. consolidated strengths of multiple models, improved generalization ability, etc.) as compared to a simple transfer learning strategy where the knowledge is drawn from single pre-trained model. Finally, our approach learns a novel fully-connected dual layer classifier via outcome of three fine-tuned models to yield a final classification result as bonafide or spoof iris trait. Our approach is evaluated on Notre Dame LivDet iris 2017 and Notre Dame contact lenses 2015 anti-spoofing datasets. The experimental analysis of IensNet offers outstanding performance with a lower ACER of 0.2% and 1.4% for Iris-LivDet-2017 and Notre Dame contact lenses 2015 dataset respectively. Besides, IensNet exhibit promising results in cross-dataset environment with an ACA of 91.46%.