Iris Liveness Detection Competition (LivDet-Iris) -- The 2020 Edition

TL;DR

The LivDet-Iris 2020 competition evaluated iris presentation attack detection methods against new attack types, providing a benchmarking platform and reporting state-of-the-art results in a standardized, reproducible manner.

Contribution

This paper introduces a new iris PAD benchmarking effort with novel attack types and an open testing protocol for continuous algorithm evaluation.

Findings

Best entry achieved 59.10% APCER and 0.46% BPCER

Compared submitted methods with baseline and open-source approaches

Evaluated iris PAD against diverse attack instruments

Abstract

Launched in 2013, LivDet-Iris is an international competition series open to academia and industry with the aim to assess and report advances in iris Presentation Attack Detection (PAD). This paper presents results from the fourth competition of the series: LivDet-Iris 2020. This year's competition introduced several novel elements: (a) incorporated new types of attacks (samples displayed on a screen, cadaver eyes and prosthetic eyes), (b) initiated LivDet-Iris as an on-going effort, with a testing protocol available now to everyone via the Biometrics Evaluation and Testing (BEAT)(https://www.idiap.ch/software/beat/) open-source platform to facilitate reproducibility and benchmarking of new algorithms continuously, and (c) performance comparison of the submitted entries with three baseline methods (offered by the University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University), and three open-source iris PAD methods available in the public domain. The best performing entry to the competition reported a weighted average APCER of 59.10\% and a BPCER of 0.46\% over all five attack types. This paper serves as the latest evaluation of iris PAD on a large spectrum of presentation attack instruments.