ID Card Spoofing Detection Using Frequency Features and CNNs
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Abstract
This paper proposes a lightweight and robust approach for detecting spoofed ID card images by integrating convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with frequency-domain analysis.The model adopts a dual-branch design: one branch processes the original RGB image, while the other takes a frequency-enhanced version produced using a high-pass Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) filter.Both branches use the same architecture: the first seven convolutional layers of the VGG16 backbone but each branch has its own parameters.The two streams are merged by a multi-head cross-attention fusion module, which aligns and integrates the complementary cues from both branches more effectively, followed by a classification module for "genuine" vs. "spoof".The method is evaluated on the "or" and "re" subsets of the Document Liveness Challenge 2021 dataset (DLC-2021).On these subsets, the model attains precision of 93.64%, recall of 88.90% and accuracy of 91.68%, significantly outperforming baseline models.The implementation remains computationally efficient, requiring about 0.120 s per image on an Intel Xeon 2.20 GHz (x86-64) CPU.The approach achieves a favorable trade-off by combining high detection accuracy with a compact model size.These results highlight the benefit of exploiting both spatial and frequency features to enhance the reliability of electronic identity verification systems.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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