LivDet-iris 2013 - Iris Liveness Detection Competition 2013

The use of an artificial replica of a biometric characteristic in an attempt to circumvent a system is an example of a biometric presentation attack. Liveness detection is one of the proposed countermeasures, and has been widely implemented in fingerprint and iris recognition systems in recent years to reduce the consequences of spoof attacks. The goal for the Liveness Detection (LivDet) competitions is to compare software-based iris liveness detection methodologies using a standardized testing protocol and large quantities of spoof and live images. Three submissions were received for the competition Part 1; Biometric Recognition Group de Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, University of Naples Federico II, and Faculdade de Engenharia de Universidade do Porto. The best results from across all three datasets was from Federico with a rate of falsely rejected live samples of 28.6% and the rate of falsely accepted fake samples of 5.7%.