# Towards Data-Centric Face Anti-Spoofing: Improving Cross-domain Generalization via Physics-based Data Synthesis

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03501 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.03501/

## Key facts

- Cited by 16 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 41 of its 97 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 4 Sep 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 41)

- [An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.11929/) (2020)
- [Momentum Contrast for Unsupervised Visual Representation Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.05722/) (2019)
- [Supervised Contrastive Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.11362/) (2020)
- [RandAugment: Practical automated data augmentation with a reduced search space](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.13719/) (2019)
- [AdapterFusion: Non-Destructive Task Composition for Transfer Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.00247/) (2020)
- [TrivialAugment: Tuning-free Yet State-of-the-Art Data Augmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.10158/) (2021)
- [Data-centric Artificial Intelligence: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.10158/) (2023)
- [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)
- [Single-Side Domain Generalization for Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.14043/) (2020)
- [Convolutional Bypasses Are Better Vision Transformer Adapters](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.07039/) (2022)
- [Adversarial AutoAugment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.11188/) (2019)
- [NAS-FAS: Static-Dynamic Central Difference Network Search for Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.02062/) (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)
- [Domain Generalization via Shuffled Style Assembly for Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.05340/) (2022)
- [PatchNet: A Simple Face Anti-Spoofing Framework via Fine-Grained Patch Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.14325/) (2022)
- [CASIA-SURF CeFA: A Benchmark for Multi-modal Cross-ethnicity Face Anti-spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.05136/) (2020)
- [Deep Learning for Face Anti-Spoofing: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.14948/) (2021)
- [CASIA-SURF: A Large-scale Multi-modal Benchmark for Face Anti-spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.10654/) (2019)
- [Self-Domain Adaptation for Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.12129/) (2021)
- [Dual-Cross Central Difference Network for Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.01290/) (2021)
- [Revisiting Pixel-Wise Supervision for Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.12032/) (2020)
- [FLIP: Cross-domain Face Anti-spoofing with Language Guidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.16649/) (2023)
- [Contrastive Context-Aware Learning for 3D High-Fidelity Mask Face Presentation Attack Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.06148/) (2021)
- [BenchLMM: Benchmarking Cross-style Visual Capability of Large Multimodal Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.02896/) (2023)
- [UniformAugment: A Search-free Probabilistic Data Augmentation Approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.14348/) (2020)
- [Adaptive Transformers for Robust Few-shot Cross-domain Face Anti-spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.12175/) (2022)
- [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)

## Built on by (most cited first, 16 of 16)

- [Domain Generalization for Face Anti-spoofing via Content-aware Composite Prompt Engineering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.04470/) (2025)
- [FaceShield: Explainable Face Anti-Spoofing with Multimodal Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.09415/) (2025)
- [Mixture-of-Attack-Experts with Class Regularization for Unified Physical-Digital Face Attack Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.00458/) (2025)
- [Benchmarking Vision Foundation Models for Domain-Generalizable Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.19196/) (2026)
- [FA^{3}-CLIP: Frequency-Aware Cues Fusion and Attack-Agnostic Prompt Learning for Unified Face Attack Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.00454/) (2025)
- [Learning Unknown Spoof Prompts for Generalized Face Anti-Spoofing Using Only Real Face Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.03611/) (2025)
- [Leveraging Intermediate Features of Vision Transformer for Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.24402/) (2025)
- [Exploring Task-Solving Paradigm for Generalized Cross-Domain Face Anti-Spoofing via Reinforcement Fine-Tuning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.21895/) (2025)
- [Optimizing DINOv2 with Registers for Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.17201/) (2025)
- [Foundation Models for Face Presentation Attack Detection: A Unified Linear-Probing Benchmark](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.26993/) (2026)
- [Generative Classifier for Domain Generalization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.02272/) (2025)
- [AI-driven Remote Facial Skin Hydration and TEWL Assessment from Selfie Images: A Systematic Solution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.06282/) (2025)
- [Domain-generalizable Face Anti-Spoofing with Patch-based Multi-tasking and Artifact Pattern Conversion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.09018/) (2026)
- [FAS-R1: A Unified Multi-Task MLLM for Reasoning Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.26432/) (2026)
- [LoRA-based Adaptation Alone Is Not Enough: Understanding the Limits of Foundation Models for Face Presentation Attack Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.09633/) (2026)
- [Primitive-Driven Compositional Forensic Visual Prompting for Open-World Face Anti-Spoofing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.17351/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Face Anti-Spoofing (FAS) research is challenged by the cross-domain problem, where there is a domain gap between the training and testing data. While recent FAS works are mainly model-centric, focusing on developing domain generalization algorithms for improving cross-domain performance, data-centric research for face anti-spoofing, improving generalization from data quality and quantity, is largely ignored. Therefore, our work starts with data-centric FAS by conducting a comprehensive investigation from the data perspective for improving cross-domain generalization of FAS models. More specifically, at first, based on physical procedures of capturing and recapturing, we propose task-specific FAS data augmentation (FAS-Aug), which increases data diversity by synthesizing data of artifacts, such as printing noise, color distortion, moir'e pattern, textitetc. Our experiments show that using our FAS augmentation can surpass traditional image augmentation in training FAS models to achieve better cross-domain performance. Nevertheless, we observe that models may rely on the augmented artifacts, which are not environment-invariant, and using FAS-Aug may have a negative effect. As such, we propose Spoofing Attack Risk Equalization (SARE) to prevent models from relying on certain types of artifacts and improve the generalization performance. Last but not least, our proposed FAS-Aug and SARE with recent Vision Transformer backbones can achieve state-of-the-art performance on the FAS cross-domain generalization protocols. The implementation is available at https://github.com/RizhaoCai/FASAug.