Recently,deep learning has been widely applied to video and image based identity recognition and authorization tasks,including face recognition and person identification.However,machine learning models,especially deep learning models,can be easily fooled by adversarial attacks,which may cause the identity recognition systems to make a wrong decision.Therefore,dependable identity recognition and authorization has become one of the hot topics currently.Recent advances on dependable identity recognition and authorization from both information space and physical space were presented,where the development of the attack models on face detection,face recognition,person re-identification,and face anti-spoofing as well as printable adversarial patches were introduced.The algorithms of visual identity anonymization and privacy protection were further discussed.Finally,the datasets,experimental protocols and performance of dependable identity recognition methods were summarized,and the possible directions in the future research were presented.