# One-Class Knowledge Distillation for Face Presentation Attack Detection

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.03792 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.03792/

## Key facts

- Cited by 13 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in General knowledge distillation methods, one of 12 directions in Knowledge distillation.
- Builds on 30 of its 59 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 8 May 2022.

## Placed in

- Knowledge distillation / [General knowledge distillation methods](https://mlsanity.com/distill/general-knowledge-distillation-methods/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 30)

- [Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1412.6980/) (2014)
- [Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1409.1556/) (2014)
- [Adversarial Discriminative Domain Adaptation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1702.05464/) (2017)
- [Uninformed Students: Student-Teacher Anomaly Detection with Discriminative Latent Embeddings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.02357/) (2019)
- [Sparse Networks from Scratch: Faster Training without Losing Performance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.04840/) (2019)
- [Searching Central Difference Convolutional Networks for Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.04092/) (2020)
- [Learning Deep Models for Face Anti-Spoofing: Binary or Auxiliary Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.11097/) (2018)
- [Deep Reconstruction-Classification Networks for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1607.03516/) (2016)
- [CelebA-Spoof: Large-Scale Face Anti-Spoofing Dataset with Rich Annotations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.12342/) (2020)
- [Cross-domain Face Presentation Attack Detection via Multi-domain Disentangled Representation Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.01959/) (2020)
- [Regularized Fine-grained Meta Face Anti-spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.10771/) (2019)
- [face anti-spoofing based on color texture analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1511.06316/) (2015)
- [Learn Convolutional Neural Network for Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1408.5601/) (2014)
- [Deep Pixel-wise Binary Supervision for Face Presentation Attack Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.04047/) (2019)
- [Deep Tree Learning for Zero-shot Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.02860/) (2019)
- [Face Anti-Spoofing Via Disentangled Representation Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.08250/) (2020)
- [On Disentangling Spoof Trace for Generic Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.09273/) (2020)
- [Face De-Spoofing: Anti-Spoofing via Noise Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.09968/) (2018)
- [Adaptive Normalized Representation Learning for Generalizable Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.02667/) (2021)
- [Dual Reweighting Domain Generalization for Face Presentation Attack Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.16128/) (2021)
- [Generalizable Representation Learning for Mixture Domain Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.02453/) (2021)
- [Revisiting Pixel-Wise Supervision for Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.12032/) (2020)
- [Learning Meta Model for Zero- and Few-shot Face Anti-spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.12490/) (2019)
- [Meta-Teacher For Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.06638/) (2021)
- [Learning Meta Pattern for Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.06753/) (2021)
- [DRL-FAS: A Novel Framework Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.07529/) (2020)
- [Look Locally Infer Globally: A Generalizable Face Anti-Spoofing Approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.02834/) (2020)
- [Learning Generalizable and Identity-Discriminative Representations for Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1901.05602/) (2019)
- [VLAD-VSA: Cross-Domain Face Presentation Attack Detection with Vocabulary Separation and Adaptation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.10301/) (2022)
- [Asymmetric Modality Translation For Face Presentation Attack Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.09108/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 13 of 13)

- [GenDet: Towards Good Generalizations for AI-Generated Image Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.08880/) (2023)
- [Digital and Physical Face Attacks: Reviewing and One Step Further](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.14692/) (2022)
- [Enhancing General Face Forgery Detection via Vision Transformer with Low-Rank Adaptation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.00917/) (2023)
- [Towards Data-Centric Face Anti-Spoofing: Improving Cross-domain Generalization via Physics-based Data Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.03501/) (2024)
- [One-Class Knowledge Distillation for Spoofing Speech Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.08285/) (2023)
- [Rehearsal-Free Domain Continual Face Anti-Spoofing: Generalize More and Forget Less](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.09914/) (2023)
- [S-Adapter: Generalizing Vision Transformer for Face Anti-Spoofing with Statistical Tokens](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.04038/) (2023)
- [DomainForensics: Exposing Face Forgery across Domains via Bi-directional Adaptation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.10680/) (2023)
- [DADM: Dual Alignment of Domain and Modality for Face Anti-spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.00429/) (2025)
- [Hyp-OC: Hyperbolic One Class Classification for Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.14406/) (2024)
- [Dual Teacher Knowledge Distillation with Domain Alignment for Face Anti-spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.01102/) (2024)
- [In-context Learning of Vision Language Models for Detection of Physical and Digital Attacks against Face Recognition Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.15285/) (2025)
- [Introducing Nylon Face Mask Attacks: A Dataset for Evaluating Generalised Face Presentation Attack Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.08114/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Face presentation attack detection (PAD) has been extensively studied by research communities to enhance the security of face recognition systems. Although existing methods have achieved good performance on testing data with similar distribution as the training data, their performance degrades severely in application scenarios with data of unseen distributions. In situations where the training and testing data are drawn from different domains, a typical approach is to apply domain adaptation techniques to improve face PAD performance with the help of target domain data. However, it has always been a non-trivial challenge to collect sufficient data samples in the target domain, especially for attack samples. This paper introduces a teacher-student framework to improve the cross-domain performance of face PAD with one-class domain adaptation. In addition to the source domain data, the framework utilizes only a few genuine face samples of the target domain. Under this framework, a teacher network is trained with source domain samples to provide discriminative feature representations for face PAD. Student networks are trained to mimic the teacher network and learn similar representations for genuine face samples of the target domain. In the test phase, the similarity score between the representations of the teacher and student networks is used to distinguish attacks from genuine ones. To evaluate the proposed framework under one-class domain adaptation settings, we devised two new protocols and conducted extensive experiments. The experimental results show that our method outperforms baselines under one-class domain adaptation settings and even state-of-the-art methods with unsupervised domain adaptation.