Review of the Fingerprint Liveness Detection (LivDet) competition series: from 2009 to 2021

TL;DR

This paper reviews the evolution of the LivDet competition series from 2009 to 2021, highlighting advancements in fingerprint presentation attack detection and the increasing competitiveness over the years.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the LivDet competitions, analyzing how the challenges and performance of fingerprint liveness detection algorithms have evolved.

Findings

Growing number of competitors over the years

Noticeable decrease in error rates

Enhanced robustness of detection algorithms

Abstract

Fingerprint authentication systems are highly vulnerable to artificial reproductions of fingerprint, called fingerprint presentation attacks. Detecting presentation attacks is not trivial because attackers refine their replication techniques from year to year. The International Fingerprint liveness Detection Competition (LivDet), an open and well-acknowledged meeting point of academies and private companies that deal with the problem of presentation attack detection, has the goal to assess the performance of fingerprint presentation attack detection (FPAD) algorithms by using standard experimental protocols and data sets. Each LivDet edition, held biannually since 2009, is characterized by a different set of challenges against which competitors must be dealt with. The continuous increase of competitors and the noticeable decrease in error rates across competitions demonstrate a growing interest in the topic. This paper reviews the LivDet editions from 2009 to 2021 and points out their evolution over the years.