GBU-Palm: A Multimodal Video Dataset and Benchmark for Palm Presentation Attack Detection

Abstract

Existing palm presentation attack detection (PAD) datasets are often limited by static imagery, restricted acquisition conditions, or insufficient multimodal video data, hindering systematic evaluation across environments, modalities, and attack types. We present GBU-Palm, a large-scale multimodal video dataset and benchmark containing 21,326 videos from 105 subjects and 210 palms across six acquisition environments, including bona fide, Print, and Replay presentations, with 6,310 synchronized RGB-NIR samples. We construct leakage-controlled protocols that separate palm identity and attack lineage and benchmark four representative video architectures under environment-matched and held-out-environment settings. Results reveal substantial architecture-dependent degradation under environmental shift and show that RGB-NIR fusion does not consistently outperform RGB-only input. We further analyze model behavior through true accept (TA), true reject (TR), false accept (FA), and false reject (FR) decomposition, spectral masking, temporal-order intervention, and frozen-backbone NIR probing, revealing distinct failure patterns and evidence utilization across architectures. GBU-Palm provides a unified and challenging benchmark for developing and evaluating robust multimodal palm PAD methods under cross-environment conditions.