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Empirical study of face authentication systems under OSNFD attacks
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • Yan LI, Singapore Management University
  • Yingjiu LI, Singapore Management University
  • XU, KE, Singapore Management University
  • Qiang YAN, Singapore Management University
  • Robert H. DENG, Singapore Management University
Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
4-2018
Abstract

Face authentication has been widely available on smartphones, tablets, and laptops. As numerous personal images are published in online social networks (OSNs), OSN-based facial disclosure (OSNFD) creates significant threat against face authentication. We make the first attempt to quantitatively measure OSNFD threat to real-world face authentication systems on smartphones, tablets, and laptops. Our results show that the percentage of vulnerable users that are subject to spoofing attacks is high, which is about 64% for laptop users, and 93% smartphone/tablet users. We investigate liveness detection methods in the real-world face authentication systems against OSNFD threat. We discover that under protection of liveness detection, the percentage of vulnerable images is 18.8%, but the percentage of vulnerable users is as high as 73.3%. This evidence suggests that the current face authentication systems are not strong enough under OSNFD attacks. Finally, we develop a risk estimation tool based on logistic regression, and analyze the impacts of key attributes of facial images on the OSNFD risk. Our statistical analysis reveals that the most influential attributes of facial images are image resolution, facial makeup, occluded eyes, and illumination. This tool can be used to evaluate OSNFD risk for OSN images to increase users’ awareness of OSNFD.

Keywords
  • liveness detection,
  • Face authentication,
  • online social networks,
  • OSN-based facial disclosure
Identifier
10.1109/TDSC.2016.2550459
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1109/TDSC.2016.2550459
Citation Information
Yan LI, Yingjiu LI, XU, KE, Qiang YAN, et al.. "Empirical study of face authentication systems under OSNFD attacks" IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing Vol. 15 Iss. 2 (2018) p. 231 - 245 ISSN: 1545-5971
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/robert-deng/62/