# The High-Quality Wide Multi-Channel Attack (HQ-WMCA) database

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09703 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.09703/

## Key facts

- Cited by 9 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 21 Sep 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 9 of 9)

- [Cross Modal Focal Loss for RGBD Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.00948/) (2021)
- [FM-ViT: Flexible Modal Vision Transformers for Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.03277/) (2023)
- [Prepended Domain Transformer: Heterogeneous Face Recognition without Bells and Whistles](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.06529/) (2022)
- [RGB-D And Thermal Sensor Fusion: A Systematic Literature Review](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.11427/) (2023)
- [A Comprehensive Evaluation on Multi-channel Biometric Face Presentation Attack Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.10286/) (2022)
- [FantasyID: A dataset for detecting digital manipulations of ID-documents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.20808/) (2025)
- [xEdgeFace: Efficient Cross-Spectral Face Recognition for Edge Devices](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.19646/) (2025)
- [The Invisible Threat: Evaluating the Vulnerability of Cross-Spectral Face Recognition to Presentation Attacks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.00380/) (2025)
- [Lightweight Cross-Spectral Face Recognition via Contrastive Alignment and Distillation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.04769/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The High-Quality Wide Multi-Channel Attack database (HQ-WMCA) database extends the previous Wide Multi-Channel Attack database(WMCA), with more channels including color, depth, thermal, infrared (spectra), and short-wave infrared (spectra), and also a wide variety of attacks.