Acoustic-based face anti-spoofing system and method

A face anti-spoofing (FAS) system for detecting liveness of a presented face, the FAS system comprising:

• a sound generator for generating a first acoustic signal and projecting the generated first acoustic signal onto the presented face for probing the presented face;
• a sound receiver for receiving a second acoustic signal for capturing an acoustic response of the presented face due to the first acoustic signal;
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• one or more computing processors communicable with the sound generator and the sound receiver, the one or more computing processors being configured to:
• control the sound generator to generate the first acoustic signal for projection to the presented face, wherein the first acoustic signal comprises a plurality of time-limited chirps, causing a face-echo signal to be reflected from the presented face when the presented face receives an individual time-limited chirp, whereby a plurality of face-echo signals is created for the plurality of time-limited chirps, and the plurality of face-echo signals is embedded in the second acoustic signal;
• receive the second acoustic signal from the sound receiver;
• preprocess the received second acoustic signal to yield a plurality of extracted signal segments, wherein the preprocessing of the received second acoustic signal includes extracting the plurality of face-echo signals from the received second acoustic signal such that an individual extracted signal segment contains a corresponding face-echo signal;
• apply a Fourier transform (FT) to the individual extracted signal segment to yield a frequency segment, whereby a plurality of frequency segments for the plurality of extracted signal segments is obtained;
• process the plurality of frequency segments with a machine-learning transformer model to yield a global frequency feature of the presented face;
• apply a short-time Fourier transform (STFT) to the plurality of extracted signal segments to yield a spectrogram;
• process the spectrogram with a convolutional neural network (CNN) to yield a local frequency feature of the presented face;
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• combine the global and local frequency features to yield an enriched feature of the presented face for determining whether the presented face is a genuine face or a spoofer.