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Mark Hooper

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preprint2026arXiv

Field-Localized Forgery Detection for Digital Identity Documents

Digital identity verification systems used in remote onboarding rely on document images to authenticate users, making them vulnerable to localized manipulations of key identity fields such as facial photographs and textual information. Existing forgery detection methods, developed primarily for natural-image forensics, show limited transferability to structured identity documents. We propose FLiD, a lightweight field-localized framework that targets critical identity regions rather than processing full-document images. A fine-tuned object detector first localizes face and text fields; a frozen MobileNetV3-Small backbone then extracts compact field-level embeddings, which are classified by lightweight neural network with only 191K trainable parameters. FLiD achieves AUC scores of 0.880 (face), 0.954 (text), and 0.923 (both-field attacks), with corresponding EERs of 18.05%, 11.61%, and 15.16%, representing absolute reductions of 29-35 percentage points over a full-document baseline trained from scratch. FLiD also consistently outperforms general-purpose manipulation detectors (TruFor, MMFusion, UniVAD) across all attack scenarios while requiring 13x fewer parameters and 21x fewer FLOPs

preprint2022arXiv

A point process model for rare event detection

Detecting rare events, those defined to give rise to high impact but have a low probability of occurring, is a challenge in a number of domains including meteorological, environmental, financial and economic. The use of machine learning to detect such events is becoming increasingly popular, since they offer an effective and scalable solution when compared to traditional signature-based detection methods. In this work, we begin by undertaking exploratory data analysis, and present techniques that can be used in a framework for employing machine learning methods for rare event detection. Strategies to deal with the imbalance of classes including the selection of performance metrics are also discussed. Despite their popularity, we believe the performance of conventional machine learning classifiers could be further improved, since they are agnostic to the natural order over time in which the events occur. Stochastic processes on the other hand, model sequences of events by exploiting their temporal structure such as clustering and dependence between the different types of events. We develop a model for classification based on Hawkes processes and apply it to a dataset of e-commerce transactions, resulting in not only better predictive performance but also deriving inferences regarding the temporal dynamics of the data.