DeepID Challenge of Detecting Synthetic Manipulations in ID Documents

Aug 28, 2025·
Pavel Korshunov
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Vidit Vidit
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Amir Mohammadi
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Christophe Ecabert
Prof. Sébastien Marcel
Prof. Sébastien Marcel
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et al.
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Abstract
An increase in AI based manipulations of ID document images threatens KYC systems widely used in online banking and other digital authentication services. DeepID challenge aimed to advance the research in the methods for detecting synthetic manipulations in ID documents. For that purpose a FantasyID dataset of both bona fide and manipulated fantasy ID cards was provided to the participants for training and tuning of their systems. Participating submissions were evaluated on a test set of FantasyID card created with both seen and unseen attacks, and on an out-of-domain private dataset of 20K real ID documents containing both genuine bona fide and manipulated samples. The challenge included two tracks 1) a binary detection track to detect whether an ID document is manipulated or not and 2) a localization track, where the goal was to identify the manipulated regions of an ID document. The evaluations were based on the F1-score metric for both detection and localization track and the submissions were ranked based on the weighted average F1-score of FantasyID (with weight 0.3) and private (with weight 0.7) test sets. With more than 100 registrations in the challenge, 26 teams have participated and 6 of them managed to beat the provided TruFor baseline method in detection track and 4 teams in the localization track. Sunlight team from Sun Yat-sen University has won both tracks of the challenge and UAM-Biometrics has ranked best in the private dataset.
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Prof. Sébastien Marcel
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Senior Research Scientist
Prof Sébastien Marcel (IEEE Fellow and IAPR Fellow) is a senior research scientist at the Idiap Research Institute (Switzerland), he heads the Biometrics Security and Privacy group and conducts research on face recognition, speaker recognition, vein recognition, attack detection (presentation attacks, morphing attacks, deepfakes) and template protection. He is also Professor at the University de Lausanne (UNIL) at the School of Criminal Justice. He is also the Director of the Swiss Center for Biometrics at Idiap, which conducts certifications of biometric products. He was Associate Editor and Guest Editor of IEEE journals (TBIOM, SPL, TIFS and SPM). He is also the lead Editor of the Springer Handbook of Biometrics Anti-Spoofing (Editions 1, 2 and 3). Since June 2025 he is a member of the Idiap Direction ad interim.