"Researchers Show Vulnerabilities in Facial Recognition"

Research conducted by Yu Chen, Bin Ma, and Zhou (HC) Ma at Tencent Security's Zuanwu Lab explored the implementation and defense mechanisms of biometric authentication. One of the researchers performed a demonstration at Black Hat USA 2019 in which they highlighted the vulnerabilities in facial recognition. The demonstration showed that it is possible to bypass a facial recognition system's liveness detection, which is put in place to detect fake faces and perform anti-face spoofing. This article continues to discuss the purpose of this research, previous studies on biometric authentication, the concept of liveness detection, and the demonstration in which the vulnerability of the liveness test was proven to exist. 

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