Identity Card Presentation Attack Detection: A Systematic Review
This study systematically reviews AI-driven Presentation Attack Detection (AI-PAD) research from 2020–2025, identifying two critical challenges: (1) data scarcity severely limits model generalizability across diverse identity documents and emerging attack modalities; and (2) a “reality gap” (performance discrepancies between private and public benchmark evaluations) and a “synthetic utility gap” (synthetic data failing to capture real-world forensic utility, leading to artifact overfitting). Adopting the PRISMA framework, we classify and evaluate methods spanning deep learning, fine-grained forgery trace analysis, and foundation models. We formally define and empirically validate these dual gaps for the first time. Our work establishes a reproducible, generalizable PAD research paradigm, clarifies the technical evolution trajectory, identifies key research gaps, and proposes a forward-looking roadmap toward secure, robust, and globally applicable AI-PAD systems.