Innovative hybrid approach for masked face recognition using pretrained mask detection and segmentation, robust PCA, and KNN classifier

M Eman, TM Mahmoud, MM Ibrahim, T Abd El-Hafeez - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Face masks are widely used in various industries and jobs, such as healthcare, food service,
construction, manufacturing, retail, hospitality, transportation, education, and public safety …

A survey of face recognition

X Wang, J Peng, S Zhang, B Chen, Y Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Recent years witnessed the breakthrough of face recognition with deep convolutional neural
networks. Dozens of papers in the field of FR are published every year. Some of them were …

Masked face transformer

W Zhao, X Zhu, K Guo, H Shi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The COVID-19 pandemic makes wearing masks mandatory. Existing CNN-based face
recognition (FR) systems suffer from severe performance degradation as masks occlude the …

Improving Accuracy of Face Recognition in the Era of Mask-Wearing: An Evaluation of a Pareto-Optimized FaceNet Model with Data Preprocessing Techniques

D Akingbesote, Y Zhan, R Maskeliūnas… - Algorithms, 2023 - mdpi.com
The paper presents an evaluation of a Pareto-optimized FaceNet model with data
preprocessing techniques to improve the accuracy of face recognition in the era of mask …

Masked face recognition via dual-branch convolutional self-attention network

W Wan, R Wen, L Deng, Y Yang - Applied Soft Computing, 2025 - Elsevier
Face recognition has made great progress with the development of deep learning
technology. However, when face recognition encounters mask occlusion, the recognition …

Lightweight face mask detection algorithm with attention mechanism

Y Shao, J Ning, H Shao, D Zhang, H Chu… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2024 - Elsevier
Lightweight computer vision models with a better balance of speed and accuracy are critical
for intelligent system devices. Wearing a mask correctly can effectively prevent the spread of …

A novel hybrid approach to masked face recognition using robust PCA and GOA optimizer

ME Taha, T Mostafa, A El-Rahman… - Scientific Journal for …, 2023 - sjdfs.journals.ekb.eg
This paper presents a novel method for recognizing faces with masks. The proposed method
integrates deep learning-based mask detection, landmark and oval face detection, and …

Cross-Architecture Distillation for Face Recognition

W Zhao, X Zhu, Z He, XY Zhang, Z Lei - Proceedings of the 31st ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Transformers have emerged as the superior choice for face recognition tasks, but their
insufficient platform acceleration hinders their application on mobile devices. In contrast …

Masked Face Recognition with Generative-to-Discriminative Representations

S Ge, W Guo, C Li, J Zhang, Y Li, D Zeng - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.16761, 2024 - arxiv.org
Masked face recognition is important for social good but challenged by diverse occlusions
that cause insufficient or inaccurate representations. In this work, we propose a unified deep …

Seeing through the Mask: Multi-task Generative Mask Decoupling Face Recognition

Z Wang, S Zhang, J Peng, X Wang, Y Guo - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic make people wear masks more frequently than ever.
Current general face recognition system suffers from serious performance degradation …