Episode #12
The Face That Isn’t One Person: Morphing Attacks and the Future of Face Recognition
In this episode, Marco Huber speaks with Marija Ivanovska, Assistant at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. They discuss face morphing attacks and their impact on biometric identity systems, exploring how morphed images can deceive face recognition technologies used in passports and ID documents. The conversation also examines emerging approaches to detecting these attacks, including foundation models, multimodal AI, synthetic data, and other advances in trustworthy biometrics. Marija Ivanovska Marija Ivanovska is an Assistant at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a member of the Laboratory for Machine Intelligence. Her research focuses on biometric security, computer vision, and trustworthy artificial intelligence, with particular emphasis on face-based attacks on biometric systems and the use of foundation models and multimodal large language models for robust biometric security. She has held international research appointments as a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University and as a Visiting Researcher at Queensland University of Technology, fostering collaborations in biometrics and trustworthy AI. She has authored numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in computer vision, biometrics, and information forensics. She is actively involved in the international research community through editorial, organizational, and reviewing roles. Marija is a member of the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee and the IAPR Technical Committee on Biometrics and serves on the Webinar Committee of the IEEE Biometrics Council. She is passionate about advancing trustworthy biometric technologies and encouraging collaboration in AI and biometrics to help build more secure, reliable, and resilient digital identity systems.
